Description

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Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines! The driver zips up her jumpsuit and squeezes through her racecar window. Engines rev. Tires SCREECH and SQUEAL...and they’re off! Around and around the cars go VVVRRRROMMMMM! Pit stops! CRASHES! POPPED tires! Race to the finish line...and the checkered flag SNAPS down. Race day roars into life in this breathless book.

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About the Author

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Gail Tuchman has had a dual career as a publishing industry executive and a prolific writer of children's fiction and nonfiction. She has long been involved in early reading programs both as a publisher and an author, and has developed several of Scholastic's evergreen product lines for the educational market. Gail lives in New York City.