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Racing Against the Odds: The Story of Wendell Scott, Stock Car Racing's African-American Champion
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Wendell O. Scott made history as the only black driver to win a race in a NASCAR Grand National (now Spring Cup) division. Born in Danville, Virginia, he scrimped and saved to buy his first car, a Model T, at age fourteen. Although he "loved to turn the wheel of a racecar, work magic on an engine, and then push it faster than it was ever meant to go," he never had the resources or sponsorship to b... More
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PublisherMarshall Cavendish Benchmark
BindingHardcover (3 editions)
Reading LevelAges 4-8
# of Pages40
ISBN-100761454659
ISBN-13978-0761454656
Publication Date10/01/2009
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About (Author) : New York Times best-selling author Carole Boston Weatherford has 34 books of poetry, nonfiction and children's literature, including Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom, winner of an ... more
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About Eric Velasquez (Illustrator) : Eric Velasquez is a published author and an illustrator of children's books and young adult books. Some of the published credits of Eric Velasquez include The Little Sister, I, Matthew Henson.
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