Burnin' Rubber: Behind the Scenes in Stock Car Racing

By George Sullivan

Book Overview

Stock car racing is wildly popular and one of the fastest-growing sports in the United States. This book captures all of the excitement of racing, taking the reader to some of the most famous tracks,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761313486
• ISBN13: 9780761313489
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Millbrook Pr
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.3" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9

Customer Reviews

Like being at the track

Burnin' Rubber, as the subtitle explains, goes "behind the scenes in stock car racing." After writing over 100 books for young readers, George Sullivan certainly knows exactly what interests the reader and just how to present the subject. About 8,000 words, the book is just the right length, taking the reader not only around the track but into the pits, with the drivers and their teams. More than two dozen colorful photos, seven by Sullivan himself, capture the action, sound and smell of burnin' rubber. The boys I saw reading it supplied the appropriate noise for nearly every photo. Just as they enjoyed Sullivan's books on Indy cars and monster trucks, they are now loving this book also. It is the next best thing to actulaly being at the track. The color photos of the jacket are repeated on the child-resistant hard cover.

Almost like being at the track

Burnin' Rubber, as the subtitle explains, goes "behind the scenes in sock car racing." After writing over 100 books for young readers, I expected that George Sullivan would know exactly what interests the reader and just how to present the subject. I was right; he does. About 8,000 words, the book is just the right length, taking the reader not only around the track but into the pits, with the drivers and their teams. Two dozen colorful photos, seven (mostly of drivers) by Sullivan himself, seem to capture the action, sound and smell of burnin' rubber. The boys I saw reading it supplied the appropriate noise for narly every photo. Just as they enjoyed Sullivan's books on Indy cars and monster trucks, they are now loving this book also. It is the next best thing to actually being at the track.DW donwigal@ix.netcom.com