[nfb-talk] Downloadable DAISY books about car racing and driving from RFB&D

[Annemarie Cooke]

Dear NFB Community:
On the eve of the exciting Blind Driver Challenge, perhaps you are 
thinking more about racing cars and driving. Whether you're heading 
to Daytona, you may be interested in reading some of these DAISY 
downloadable audio books from RFB&D!  Included is the biography of 
the first African American NASCAR driver. Remember, individual RFB&D 
memberships are free if you haven't yet signed up. 
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  Enjoy!
Annemarie Cooke


Adult Nonfiction
Book Number      JP328
Personal Name    DONOVAN, BRIAN
Title            HARD DRIVING : THE WENDELL SCOTT STORY : THE AMERICAN ODYSSEY
  OF NASCAR'S FIRST BLACK DRIVER
Published        STEERFORTH PRESS 2008
Phys. Descript.  1 sound disc :
ISBN             9781586421441
Adult Fiction
Book Number      HY666
Personal Name    McCrumb, Sharyn, 1948-
Title            St. Dale [sound recording] / Sharyn McCrumb.
Published        Kensington Books [2006], c2005
Phys. Descript.  1 sound disc :
ISBN             0758207778
ISBN             9780758207777
Summary          The Dale Ernhardt Memorial Pilgrimage is the last trip Judge
  Bekasu Holifield would have chosen for her vacation. but this year it's her
  sister Justine's turn to make their plans, and soon Bekasu's 
boarding a silver
  cruise bus for a tour of Southern stock car speed ways with Justine, their
  cousin Cayle, and a group of strangers -- all of whose lives have 
somehow been
  touched by the legendary racer they never met.
Subject (Name)   Earnhardt, Dale, 1951-2001 -- Influence -- Fiction.
Subject          Fans (Persons) -- Fiction.
Subject          Stock car drivers -- Fiction.
Subject          Stock car racing -- Fiction.
Juvenile Fiction
Book Number      JZ064
Personal Name    Wight, Eric
Title            Frankie Pickle and the Pine Run 3000 / Eric Wight
Published        Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers 2010
Phys. Descript.  1 sound disc :
ISBN             1416964851
ISBN             9781416964858
Grade/Level      [Grades 1-5]
Summary          Fourth-grader Frankie Piccolini's vivid imagination does not
  help him advance in rank with the rest of his Possum Scout troop, but winning
  the Pine Run 3000 model car race would give him the points he needs.
Subject          Racing -- Juvenile fiction
Book Number      HP287
Personal Name    Peck, Richard, 1934-
Title            Here lies the librarian [sound recording] / Richard Peck.
Published        Dial Books c2006
Phys. Descript.  1 sound disc :
ISBN             0803730802
ISBN             9780803730809
Grade/Level      [Grades 5-11].
Summary          Fourteen-year-old Eleanor "Peewee" McGrath, a tomboy and
  automobile enthusiast, discovers new possibilities for her future after the
  1914 arrival in her small Indiana town of four young librarians.
Subject          American fiction -- 20th century.
Subject          Automobiles -- Juvenile fiction.
Subject          Automobile racing -- Juvenile fiction.
Book Number      JX109
Personal Name    Weaver, Will.
Title            Saturday night dirt [sound recording] / by Will Weaver.
Edition          1st Square 1st ed.
Published        Square Fish 2009, c2008
Phys. Descript.  1 sound disc :
ISBN             9780312561314
ISBN             0312561318
Grade/Level      [Grades 7-12].
Summary          In a small town in northern Minnesota, the much-anticipated
  Saturday night dirt-track race at the old-fashioned, barely viable Headwaters
  Speedway becomes, in many ways, an important life-changing event for all the
  participants on and off the track.
Subject          Automobile racing -- Juvenile fiction.
Subject          Stock car racing -- Juvenile fiction.
Juvenile Nonfiction
Book Number      JR954
Personal Name    Kulling, Monica.
Title            Eat my dust! [sound recording] : Henry Ford's first race / by
  Monica Kulling ; illustrated by Richard Walz.
Edition          1st ed.
Published        Random House c2004
Phys. Descript.  1 sound disc :
ISBN             0375815104
ISBN             9780375815102
Series Title     Step into reading. Step 3
Series Title     Step into reading. Step 3 book.
Grade/Level      [Grades 1-3].
Summary          Relates the excitement caused by Henry Ford as he drove the
  "horseless carriage" he built, particularly when he decided to win a race to
  get money to build a new car that anyone could afford.
Subject (Name)   Ford, Henry, 1863-1947 -- Juvenile literature.
Subject          Automobile engineers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile
  literature.
Subject          Automobiles, Racing -- Juvenile literature.
Subject          Industrialists -- Juvenile literature.
Subject          Automobile industry and trade -- Biography -- Juvenile
  literature.

Book Number      HP917
Personal Name    Smith, Timothy C.
Title            Crashproof your kids [sound recording] : make your teen a
  safer, smarter driver / Timothy C. Smith.
Published        Simon & Schuster c2006
ISBN             0743277112
ISBN             9780743277112
Book Number      JP271
Personal Name    Crabb, Owen
Title            Drive right / Owen Crabb, Randall R. Thiel, Frederik R.
  Mottola, Elizabeth A. Weaver
Edition          11th ed
Published        Pearson 2010
Grade/Level      Grades 10-12
ISBN             0133612600
ISBN             9780133612608
Book Number      HR668
Personal Name    Peli, Eli.
Title            Driving with confidence [sound recording] : a practical guide
  to driving with low vision / Eli Peli, Doron Peli.
Published        World Scientific c2002
ISBN             9810247044
Book Number      HM227
Title            License to drive [sound recording] / ASD.
Edition          2nd ed.
Published        Thomson/Delmar Learning c2007
ISBN             1401879780
Book Number      HJ088
Title            Responsible driving [sound recording] / [consulting authors,
  John W. Palmer ... et al.].
Published        McGraw-Hill/Glencoe c2006
Grade/Level      Grades 9-12.
ISBN             0078678145
Book Number      HY165
Personal Name    Kimball, Richard S.
Title            Things to know about cars and driving [sound recording] / by
  Richard S. Kimball.
Published        J. Weston Walch c1998
Grade/Level      Grades 9-12. RL: 4.
ISBN             0825138280
ISBN             9780825138287