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Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Getting a driver’s license is an exciting milestone for teens that comes with an amazing sense of freedom and independence—but it’s also a big responsibility. Help them be cautious and confident behind the wheel with this ultimate guide to driving for teens. The rules of the road—Make it easy for teens to learn road signs, proper turning and passing etiquette, defensive driving, and more. Acing the test—Teens will find 100 practice questions...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A ferociously intimate memoir by a devout woman from a modest family in Saudi Arabia who became the unexpected leader of a courageous movement to support women’s right to drive. Manal al-Sharif grew up in Mecca the second daughter of a taxi driver, born the year fundamentalism took hold. In her adolescence, she was a religious radical, melting her brother's boy band cassettes in the oven because music was haram: forbidden by Islamic law. But what...
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"From the adolescent thrill of getting a driver's license to the dreaded commutes of adulthood, from vintage muscle cars to electric vehicles, this groundbreaking book reveals the outsized impact the car has had���and will continue to have���on the lives of women. Since their inception cars have defined American culture, but until quite recently car histories were largely written by and about men���with little attention given to...
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999?]
Language
English
Description
Based on a true story about 73-year-old Alvin Straight who embarks on a dangerous and emotional journey to make amends with his 75-year-old brother Lyle before his brother dies. Alvin can no longer drive a car because of his eyesight and has to walk with 2 canes, but he climbs aboard his 1966 John Deere lawnmower and drives the 260-mile course from Laurens, Iowa to Mt. Zion, Wis.
When Alvin hears that his estranged brother Lyle has had a stroke,...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Valentina is the kidnapped daughter of a Ukranian government official. Frank Martin is given an offer he cannot refuse and ends up putting on his driving gloves to deliver Valentina from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to deal with the thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe delivery. On top of that, he cannot let his personal feelings get in the way of his dangerous objective.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In 1938, Mercedes-Benz began production of the largest, most luxurious limousine in the world. A machine of frightening power and sinister beauty, the Grosser 770K Model 150 Offener Tourenwagen was 20 feet long, seven feet wide, and tipped the scales at 5 tons. Its supercharged, 230-horsepower engine propelled the beast to speeds over 100 m.p.h. while its occupants reclined on glove-leather seats stuffed with goose down. Armor plated and equipped...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Description
"How the automobile fundamentally changed African American life-the true history beyond the Best Picture-winning movie. The ultimate symbol of independence and possibility, the automobile has shaped this country from the moment the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line. Yet cars have always held distinct importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the many dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Chronicling the riveting history and personal experiences, at once liberating and challenging, harrowing and inspiring, deeply revealing and profoundly transforming, of African Americans on the road from the advent of the automobile through the seismic changes of the 1960s and beyond, it explores the deep background of a recent phrase rooted in realities that have been an indelible part of the African American experience for hundreds of years.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In the vein of Hidden Figures comes a nonfiction picture book about the Green Book, a travel guide by Victor Hugo Green, a Black postal worker from Harlem, made to help African Americans stay safe while traveling during segregation. As a mail carrier, Victor Hugo Green traveled across New Jersey every day. But with Jim Crow laws enforcing segregation since the late 1800s, traveling as a Black person in the US could be stressful, even dangerous....
Series
Traffic safety facts. Traffic tech - technology transfer volume no. 364
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Series
Traffic safety facts. Traffic tech - technology transfer volume no. 362
Publisher
U.S. Dept. of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
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