Racing Against the Odds: The Story of Wendell Scott, Stock Car Racings African-American Champion
by Carole Boston Weatherford and Eric Velasquez
- Grade
- 4-8
- Genre
- Biography
- Nonfiction
- Sports
- Cultural Experience
- African American
Year Published 2009
Word Count 1,158
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 930L
- ATOS Reading Level: 4.9
- AR Quiz Numbers
- 132484
- Curricular Area
- History
- Subject Headings
- Stock car drivers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Stock car drivers
- Automobile racing drivers
- African Americans
- Scott, Wendell, 1921-1990--Juvenile literature
- Scott, Wendell
- Automobile racing drivers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
- Scott, Wendell, 1921-1990
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | General
- United States
- African American automobile racing drivers--Biography--Juvenile literature
- African American automobile racing drivers
- African Americans--Biography
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