Gravelle, Karen
Summary: Covering different scenarios new drivers may face, from changing a tire and negotiating privileges with parents to handling a car in bad weather, a practical guide helps teens navigate through tricky territory on the road and at home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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Summary: "Readers will learn about the general requirements for permits, driver's tests, different kinds of licenses, learning to drive, dangerous behavior, and other areas related to driving"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 629.2 APESantat, Dan
Summary: "A boy goes on a long car ride to visit his grandmother and discovers time moves faster or slower depending on how bored he is"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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Summary: Follows a young girl's imaginary journey as she zooms in a race car past fields and forests to faraway lands before returning home to her own safe bed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MCCLaRochelle, David.
Summary: When Cow gets her hooves on the farmer's car, she takes it for a wild ride through the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LARQuensel, Warren P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Safety Enterprises 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 QuenselSummary: Alone on a desolate highway, two homebound teens are nearly run off the road by a dementd tailgater. Later they spot this maniac disposing a body down into a sewer pipe. When they stop to investigate, they realize the horrible mistake they have made. The unspeakable evil maniac now intends to make them his next victims.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JEEBrindle, Damian
Summary: Passing Driver’s Ed is only the beginning. There are countless things that new drivers need to know to stay safe on the road, knowledge that for most of us only comes from years of experience. For parents, watching your teen drive off for the first time can be a scary sight. But now you can rest assured knowing that your teenage driver understands how to drive safely with this book in hand....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Indepently Published 0000
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Summary: "From a brilliant new voice in crime fiction comes Welcome to the Game, a gripping thriller that races through Motor City at heart-stopping pace as a getaway driver and a local mobster swerve to avoid danger at every turn. Craig Henderson screeches onto the scene with this fast-paced debut starring ex-rally driver Spencer Burnham. Having moved his family from England to Detroit and opened a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2022
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Summary: A guide for parents of teenage drivers discusses such topics as developing defensive driving skills, handling road emergencies, providing basic car maintenance, and helping teenagers avoid alcohol and drugs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 SmithCrawford, Matthew B.
Summary: A celebration of open-road driving explores the road trip as a technology-threatened but enduring path to human reliance, exploration, and freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 388.3 CRAGoldstone, Lawrence
Summary: "From the acclaimed author of Birdmen comes a revelatory new history of the birth of the automobile, an illuminating and entertaining true tale of invention, competition, and the visionaries, hustlers, and swindlers who came together to transform the world. In 1900, the Automobile Club of America sponsored the nation's first car show in New York's Madison Square Garden. The event was a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 338 GOLHollister, Tim
Summary: "A new and unique approach to helping parents of teen drivers focus on preventing dangerous situations written by a father who lost his teenage son in a car crash"-Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 HollisterStephenson, Melissa
Summary: "For fans of Wild, a searing memoir about one woman's road to hope following the death of her troubled brother, told through the series of cars that accompanied her Growing up in a blue-collar family in the Midwest, Melissa Stephenson longed for escape. Her wanderlust was an innate reaction to the powerful personalities around her, and came too from her desire to find a place in the world where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STEPHENSON, MELISSA STESummary: An interactive driver education course aimed at teens. Includes quizzes at the end of each section, road sign tests, practice exams, a virtual driver feature, and graphics that show difficult maneuvers such as parallel parking from up to 6 different angles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Jumby Bay Studios 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 RulesJoseph, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 JosephCalmenson, Stephanie
Summary: Driving his red sports car through busy streets, a dinosaur named Rex honks his horn while his friend Stego repeats, "No honking allowed," in this rhyming story.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2017
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Summary: A collection of O'Rourke's writings about cars for Car and Driver, Automobile, Esquire, Forbes, and other publications.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818.5402 OROBurningham, John.
Summary: Mr. Gumpy's human and animal friends squash into his old car and go for a drive -- until it starts to rain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crowell 1976
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BURPlourde, Lynn.
Summary: A feisty grandmother and her family struggle to get an assortment of farm animals out of the road so the family can pass in their T-Model Ford.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Down East Books, c 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE PLORoot, Phyllis.
Summary: Pierre lives all alone at the foot of the mountain so he hops in his car to find a friend. Will the car make it to the top of the mountain? Will it get safely down? Will Pierre ever find a friend?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE ROOVanderbilt, Tom.
Summary: Based on exhaustive research and interviews with driving experts and traffic officials around the globe, Traffic gets under the hood of the everyday activity of driving to uncover the surprisingly complex web of physical, psychological, and technical factors that explain how traffic works, why we drive the way we do, and what our driving says about us. Vanderbilt examines the perceptual limits...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629.2 VanderbiltBest, Cari
Summary: "A boy turns a cardboard box into a car and imagines what it would be like to take his mama for a drive all around town"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BESDiCamillo, Kate.
Summary: Mercy Watson to the rescue: After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2006