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

Bryan Schulz b.schulz at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jan 28 04:29:20 UTC 2011


hi,

i seriously doubt the car will be going 180+mph so just relax.

Bryan Schulz

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Annemarie Cooke (by way of David Andrews<dandrews at visi.com>)" 
<aec732 at msn.com>
To: <david.andrews at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 8:42 PM
Subject: [nfb-talk] Downloadable DAISY books about car racing and driving 
from RFB&D


> 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. <http://www.rfbd.org>www.rfbd.org
>  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
>
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