It is saturday night at the Headwaters Speedway in northern Minnesota. In the first of his "Motor" series, Will Weaver introduces readers to a cast of characters who love dirt-track car racing. There's Melody (Mel for short) who runs the track for her handicapped father; Trace, whose mechanic has sabotaged his engine; Beau whose car is a barely together pile of spare parts; Amber, a female driver with a crush of Beau; and Tudy who works at her parents barbeque food stand at the track, among others. There is enough race car lingo and racing action to hook boys, especially in rural areas where small dirt racetracks are a major part of the social scene is the summer.
Weaver owns a modified race car co-sponsored by his publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and races in the Wissota stock car league. Read more about it at motornovels.com
The book is a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award in 2009.
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