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41) Paradise county
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Description
The rolling fields of Shelby County are home to some of the finest horseflesh and bluest blood in Kentucky. With its rural beauty and tranquil lifestyle, it is easy to see why the locals call it Paradise County. But beneath the serene exterior lies a dark underside, and an evil that threatens everyone who touches it. Alexandra Haywood and her younger sister, Neely, have always loved Whistledown, the family's magnificent Shelby County horse farm. After...
42) To the hilt
Author
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Al Kinloch, a young painter who lives in seclusion on a Scottish mountain is called to London to save his family from financial ruin. It happens after the director of the family brewery embezzles the funds. Far from being a babe in the woods, the painter does an excellent job.
44) Cool mint
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Series
Candy fairies volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Dash, the smallest Mint Fairy in Sugar Valley, is so determined to set a new speed record in the annual Marshmallow Run sled race that she begins to neglect her responsibilities.
45) Triple crown
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Asked by the U.S. FACSA to find a mole who has been passing on information to those under suspicion in American horse racing, British Horseracing Authority investigator Jeff Hinkley participates in a raid on a corrupt trainer's barn before three Kentucky Derby contenders become suspiciously ill.
46) Hands down
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Series
Dick Francis novel volume 11
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Sid Halley, a private investigator, has a new left hand, having had a transplant since his last appearance in Refusal. After receiving death threats, an ex-jockey trainer friend calls Sid to ask for his help, but Sid has his own problems to deal with; like recovering from surgery and saving his crumbling marriage. When his friend's stable yard is torched, horses killed, and the friend is found dead, Sid can only blame himself for not helping sooner....
50) Vroom!
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
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.
51) End of the race
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Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
After treating an injured greyhound at her grandmother's veterinary clinic, thirteen-year-old Maggie learns about the abuse of greyhounds in the dog-racing industry and vows to put a stop to it.
53) Come to grief
Author
Series
Sid Halley volume 3
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
The one-handed former jockey, Sid Halley, hunts for the man who mutilates ponies by amputating their hooves, and discovers the suspect is former jockey Ellis Quint. What's more, Quint has powerful interests on his side and they are out to get Halley. By the author of Whip Hand.
55) Canyon chaos
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Series
Robot racers volume 1
Publisher
Capstone Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
This year the robot races are just for children, and Jimmy Roberts is entering the robot taxi his genius grandfather has built--but he will have to compete with a racer designed by NASA engineers for the wealthy and unscrupulous Horace Pelly.
56) Swim, Mo, swim!
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Publisher
Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
On Field Day, Mo swims a lot faster than he knew he could, not because his team might win but because a fish keeps nibbling his toe.
58) Race from A to Z
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Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Dump trucks, fire trucks, and even garbage trucks join in a race through the streets of Trucktown.
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Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
While trying to find new challengers for the horse he had won in a poker game, Dude McQueen and his sidekicks--Coyote Walking, the Eastern-educated Comanche jockey, and Uncle Billy, the talented horse doctor and trainer--come across dangerous information about their horse's bloodlines.
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