Books About
Cars - Fiction
Overdrive by Eric Walters.
When Jake is
involved in a street-racing accident, he struggles to do the right thing.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.7
The car by Gary Paulsen.
A teenager left
on his own travels west in a kit car he built himself, and along the way picks
up two Vietnam veterans, who take him on an eye-opening journey.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.8
Trapped in the
sixties by Susannah Brin.
Johnny thought his
life was getting pretty boring, but then he finds a classic GTO in his barn,
and after he restores it he finds himself on a wild ride to the past.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 4.3
Turn left on
green : a novel of stock car racing
by Clyde Bolton.
Sportswriter Beth
Barrett and racecar driver David Marlow fall in love as she follows the racing
circuit through Talladega, Rockingham, and more, but a disgruntled
ex-sportswriter who lost his job to Beth and a ruthless owner out to sabotage
David may make their love impossible.
Taking the
wall : stories by Jonis
Agee.
A collection of
short stories by Jonis Agee in which racecar drivers, pit crews, mechanics, and
their families try to balance their careers and family lives.
Young guns by Kent Wright and Don Keith.
Jodell Bob Lee,
his glory days long over, recruits a talented new driver in an attempt to put
together a winning racing team.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.5
Fastback Beach by Shirlee Smith Matheson.
When Miles is put
on probation for stealing a car, he learns about hot rods and rebuilding cars.
When the project is stolen, Miles has to face up to his friends.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 3.9
White
lightning by Kent Wright
& Don Keith.
Jodell Bob Lee,
looking for a life outside his grandfather's moonshine business, gets hooked on
racing stock cars.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.3
From a Buick 8
: a novel by Stephen
King.
Eighteen-year-old
Ned, having taken to hanging out at the barracks of state police Troop D in
rural Pennsylvania after the death of his father, Trooper Curtis Wilcox,
becomes obsessed with learning the truth about a 1954 Buick
Roadmaster--apparently a conduit to the underworld--the squad has had secreted
in a locked shed since 1979 when its owner mysteriously disappeared.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.8
Christine by Stephen King.
Arnie Cunningham,
a bookish and bullied high school senior, becomes obsessed with a 1958 Plymouth
he is restoring named Christine.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 6.6
Race of the
hours by Carl Henry
Rathjen.
Roy Hammond faces
hazzards and hope as the big race approaches.
Green thirteen by Margaret and George Ogan.
Jim Justin's
racing career blooms and the future looks good for him until the 500 Miler at
the Ontario Motor Speedway.
Books About
Cars - Nonfiction
Kustom
painting secrets by Jon
Kosmoski.
How to paint your
car-motorcycle-truck-street rod
How to custom
paint & graphics by
Jon Kosmoski and Timothy Remus.
Custom painting
techniques
Automotive
cheap tricks and special F/X by Craig Fraser
Demonstrates
several custom painting techniques and ideas.
How to build
horsepower. 1, [Methods
for building horsepower in any engine] by David Vizard
Methods for
improving horsepower is discussed.
A world of
wheels. Cars of the sixties : have you got a tiger in your tank? by Michael Sedgwick.
Describes
automobiles built around the world during the 1960s, discussing the development
of cars as luxury, or escape machines, and provides color photos of various
models and detailed line drawings of their engines and other parts.
Auto audio :
choosing, installing, and maintaining car stereo systems by Andrew Yoder.
Classic
American cars by Quentin
Willson
Contains color
photographs and information about sixty classic American automobiles built
between 1943 and 1978.
Formula one
racing by Richard Huff.
Story of three
stars of Formula One racing, the fastest sport in the world.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 6.9
Demolition
derby by Richard Huff.
Surveys the
history of demolition derby competition and types of vehicles, various events,
and tactics involved.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 7.2
Crashes &
collisions by Michael
Benson.
Describes some of
the most famous crashes and collisions in auto-racing history, from 1909 to the
present.
Accelerated
Reader--Level 6.3
American
motorsports: the definitive illustrated guide edited by David Phillips
Presents a
historical overview of motorsports in America, and looks at the drivers, teams,
competitions, and famous circuits related to NASCAR, Indy car, sports cars,
drag racing, off-roading, and dirt track racing.
Fantastic
finishes : NASCAR's great races by Jim
Gigliotti.
Reviews several
NASCAR races that are memorable for the drivers, the competitiveness, and/or
the tactical maneuvering that made them exciting.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.2
Dirt track
daredevils : the history of NASCAR by Bob
Woods.
Surveys important
people and events throughout the history of NASCAR.
Accelerated
Reader Reading Level - 5.6
NASCAR's most
wanted : the top 10 book of outrageous drivers, wild wrecks, and other oddities by
Jim McLaurin
Presents stories
from NASCAR racing.
The wildest
ride : a history of NASCAR (or, how a bunch of good ol' boys built a
billion-dollar industry out of wrecking cars) by Joe Menzer
Presents the
history of NASCAR.
Stock car race
shop : design and construction of a NASCAR stock car by William Burt.
Discusses what
goes in to the design of a stock car.