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Checkered Flag Cheater: A Motor Novel (Motor Novels, 3) Hardcover – Illustrated, April 27, 2010
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Trace Bonham is living large as the teen driver for a pro Super Stock racing team. He's on billboards and on the road instead of stuck in school. And he's blowing away the competition wherever he races. But Trace is worried that those who think his crew is illegally "juicing" his engine may be right. It's up to him to discover what is going on--and what he's going to do about it.
- Reading age12 - 18 years
- Print length198 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level7 and up
- Lexile measureHL740L
- Dimensions6 x 0.62 x 9 inches
- PublisherFarrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
- Publication dateApril 27, 2010
- ISBN-100374350620
- ISBN-13978-0374350628
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“Weaver extends his Motor Series with this full-throttle, stand-alone sequel.” ―Kirkus Review
“This is a good choice for car-mad reluctant readers” ―School Library Journal
About the Author
Author of Red Earth, White Earth and A Gravestone Made of Wheat, Will Weaver grew up in northern Minnesota on a dairy farm. The sometimes harsh and beautiful landscape of farm and small town life figures strongly in his writing. Sweet Land, an independent feature film adaptation of his story “Gravestone Made of Wheat”, and starring Ned Beatty, premiered in October of 2006.
Weaver is also known for his young adult fiction. His character Billy Baggs, a teenage farm boy baseball phenom, earned his way into the hearts of teen readers in the series Striking Out, Farm Team, and Hard Ball. Each novel has won numerous awards, including being named an ALA Best Book for Young Adults. Memory Boy, a post-apocalyptic novel based on environmental collapse, is used across the curriculum in many junior and senior high schools.
Claws, a novel set in northeastern Minnesota (Duluth and the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness) features outdoor survival with a strong family back story. Weaver’s Full Service won starred reviews (Kirkus Reviews and The Horn Book) for its focus on a young man struggling with matters of religious faith and doubt, all complicated by his first “real” summer job, at a gas station, where he “meets the public” in all its variety. Defect, a novel about a teenager born with a miraculous birth abnormality, highlights what one reviewer from The St. Paul Pioneer Press called “the humanity and decency that runs through all of Weaver’s work.”.
As an author, Mr. Weaver is particularly concerned with youth literacy and keeping kids reading. His new MOTOR series addresses a group of underserved young adult readers: kids who love cars. His new novel Saturday Night Dirt and its sequel, Super Stock Rookie, focus on dirt track stock car racing. The series starts with a close focus on a small town speedway and the cast of colorful characters who come there to race on Saturday nights. One of the characters, sixteen-year-old Trace Bonham, is a natural driver with dreams of racing professionally. The MOTOR series follows Trace’s on his path toward getting a “ride” (a sponsored race car) and competing at the highest level he can. While these auto racing novels will certainly appeal to boys, Weaver’s novels always contain a diverse cast of characters. Auto racing is one of the few sports that gives no gender advantage, and the MOTOR series also includes a positive and realistic portrayal of young women involved in racing.
Along with the MOTOR series of novels, Weaver has formed a stock car racing team with a teenaged driver. His black No. 16 Modified race car, co-sponsored by Farrar, Straus & Giroux publishers, is driven by Skyler Smith of Bemidji. Team Weaver races in the WISSOTA circuit in the upper Midwest.
An avid outdoorsman, Will Weaver lives with his wife on the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota.
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- Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR); First Edition (April 27, 2010)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 198 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0374350620
- ISBN-13 : 978-0374350628
- Reading age : 12 - 18 years
- Lexile measure : HL740L
- Grade level : 7 and up
- Item Weight : 1.05 pounds
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.62 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #748,625 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #17 in Teen & Young Adult Extreme Sports Fiction
- #5,037 in Teen & Young Adult Action & Adventure
- #142,357 in Children's Books (Books)
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About the author
Breaking: Kirkus Reviews calls Will Weaver's new novel POWER & LIGHT "A consuming work of great poetical depth and moral power."
Will grew up in northern Minnesota on a farm. The landscape of small town life figures strongly in much of his writing. He has gained a national audience for his unflinching realism, and for what one reviewer called ". . . the humanity and decency that runs through all of Weaver's work" ( St. Paul Pioneer Press).
His short story collection A GRAVESTONE MADE OF WHEAT was a New York Times "notable book." His books have been adapted for radio, stage and film. SWEET LAND, the feature film adaptation of his story "Gravestone Made of Wheat", starring Ned Beatty, premiered in October of 2006. SWEET LAND is also the title of his collection of short stories, which includes the film-inspiring story. His memoir, THE LAST HUNTER, is a closely described look at the arc of his family from tiny, immigrant homestead farm in North Dakota to post-modern America, a theme which returns in his new novel of the Midwest (see below).
Weaver is also well known for his young adult fiction. MEMORY BOY, a post-apocalyptic novel based on environmental collapse, is widely used in junior and senior high schools across the United States. Other young adult novels include CLAWS and FULL SERVICE. His baseball trilogy STRIKING OUT, FARM TEAM and HARD BALL has a lasting place in high school libraries across the country. More recently are his SATURDAY NIGHT DIRT and its sequel, SUPER STOCK ROOKIE (2009), which focus on dirt track stock car racing. Reviewed on "Good Morning America," the MotorNovels were described as "great teen reads, and not just for boys."
Weaver's long-awaited adult novel, POWER & LIGHT, dropped in October of 2023. A sequel will follow in late 2024. The two-book saga completes a cycle of the Scandinavian immigrant experience in the Midwest, covering three plus generations of the Haugen family who–against overwhelming odds– endure and prosper.
An avid outdoorsman and popular public speaker, Will Weaver lives with his wife on the Mississippi River in northern Minnesota.
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