Category: Young Adult/Teen Publisher: Tor Books
ISBN-10: B00KK3U2P0
Type: Fiction
Pages: 288
Copyright: 1999
ISBN-13: 9780812575064
Price: $7.99 (eBook)
A 100-mph fictional series set in NASCAR stockcar racing traces the sport from its rural beginnings to today's super-tracks.
It's the mid-1950s, and Elvis is King. Jodell Bob Lee has been raised up in his grandfather's moonshine business. But the boy dreams of something much bigger than clawing out a living on a dirt farm and outrunning federal revenuers. He dreams of racing stock cars. It only takes a few races before Jodell is hooked, and before long he and his mechanic cousin, Joe Baker, and best friend, Bubba Baxter, are facing the like of Junior Johnson, Ned Jarrett, and Lee Petty. His motto: always finish first, no matter what.
The explosion of stock car racing as the number one spectator sport in America roars to life in this pedal-to-the-metal story of Jodell Lee's triumphant rise to fame and fortune. There are seven more books in the series, all available in paperback, audio, and for all e-book formats.
Excerpt
"You know how it feels...the power of the motors vibrating in your chest, stunning your ears, your heart pumping in your throat, the grit of spent tire rubber in your mouth. You know how it feels from the grandstand? Just imagine how it feels to the ole boy behind the wheel of one of those monsters. Just imagine!"
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