Sprint

by Chris Everheart

Filming a sprint car race on the local track for the high school vlog, aspiring journalist Dylan Clarke captures Carlee Martin's fiery accident, and as he replays the video, he realizes there's something suspicious about the crash that compels him to investigate, putting himself into danger.

96 pages, Library Binding

First published January 1, 2016

About the author

I'm living proof that harnessing talents like staring out the window and watching TV can be put to use for the good (or at least the entertainment) of humankind.
Fifty percent of my childhood was spent staring out a classroom window, wondering what was going on "out there." I daydreamed about interesting places, fascinating people and exciting adventures.
As a reluctant and struggling young reader, my hunger for stories was fed mostly by TV and movies. I still haven't read all the classics (I promise I will eventually). PRIDE AND PREJUDICE wasn't on my reading list as a kid. But I distinctly remember going to the drive-in movies with my dad and little brother and seeing SMOKEY AND THE BANDIT for the first time! I wanted to LIVE in a world where a Trans Am really could jump a creek from a collapsed bridge and keep tooling down a dirt road away from the county mounties.
In high school, though, I was lucky enough to be inspired by a dedicated teacher to read and connect to the arts and humanities. It opened up a world that I might otherwise never have known. I went on to study art and anthropology/archaeology in New Mexico and Minnesota and traveled throughout the lower-48, Western Canada and Alaska. My jobs have included: archaeological illustrator; art gallery manager; motion picture/TV/indy film crew, writer, director and actor; waiter; maitre d; pool boy; slime line worker (people who've worked in an Alaskan fishery know what this is).
While working at an ad agency, I started writing my first book - a political thriller - because I needed to express my passion for stories but couldn't afford to go to film school. It stuck. I found that story is always lurking just below the surface of my conscious mind, so writing fiction comes very naturally to me. I got a contract to write action/adventure books for young readers and found it so easy and fun to write to my 12-year-old self (ref: "reluctant and struggling reader" above).
So I write for young readers and grown ups alike - short stories, novels, chapter books, graphic novels. I still love daydreaming about interesting places, fascinating people and exciting adventures. But window gazing has gotten even better - because today I get to share my daydreams with you. Enjoy!

Reviews

[Aiden Munro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sprint is another book of the tartan house. Its basically of just racers at the local track. But there was a huge accident. As read on the back of the book. But as the main character of the story begins to rewind the video he got from the race. Something seems sketchy. -no spoilers-

A girl a junior the best racer in the town is about to win the race to go to nationals. But is mysteriously for some reason her car shuts down. Then revs really high. Next thing you know she is bouncing up against the wall scarping her paint. ¨It was Awful¨ But the main character in this story has thought out a decision. Go to the Homecoming football game or go to Carley's race. Which one will he pick? The race. He is a news reporter for his school. So he decides to do the report on Carley the racer, the best in the town. All of the events that happened are typed above.

Sprint is probably the second best book in the series that I read. It's full of mysteries. And there are no dead spots in the book because of its only 96 pages long just like all the tartan house books. On all the pages there is giant information spot where it will impact the story for the rest of the time. That's what makes these books great.

[JL Salty · Rating 5 out of 5]

a good hi-lo book, ok for JH boys / girls (female race-car driver)