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Born to Race
In this novelization, Speed Racer—a fearless young race car driver— is given an unprecedented offer to join Royalton Industries’ renowned racing team. But Speed refuses once he learns that Royalton and other racing moguls are fixing the races. But if Speed won’t drive for Royalton, Royalton swears that the Speed will never race again! The only way for Speed to save the sport he loves is to team up with his one-time rival—the mysterious Racer X—in the death-defying, cross-country rally.
96 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1980
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About the author
Michael Anthony Steele
141 books29 followersMichael Anthony Steele is an author and screenwriter living in Dallas, Texas. He’s written for a wide variety of entertainment and educational properties from Barney & Friends to the novelization of the recent film, Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. He’s written over 60 licensed books for such major properties as Shrek, Penguins of Madagascar, Wordgirl, The Batman, Garfield, Spider-man, Speed Racer, Winx Club, Sly Cooper, and many more. Anthony’s television experience begins with the award-winning PBS series Wishbone and carries him all the way to writing 25 episodes of Barney & Friends and 4 DVDs of Boz: The Green Bear Next Door.
Between writing projects, Anthony is thrilled to give presentations to schools and libraries across the country. Having been fortunate enough to write for so many famous brands, his appearances require very little preparation on the part of the instructors because, most likely, the kids are fans of one or more of the properties for which he’s written.
Anthony’s current presentation features multimedia elements and tells the story of how he became a writer—following an exciting path through a career in photography and special effects. His appearances have been described as the “rock-n-roll” author visits since he comes with an animated presentation, humor, audio/visual elements, loads of energy, and a guitar—that’s right, a guitar!
His life’s journey has given him unique experience and the ability to share behind-the-scenes knowledge, tell stories, and answer questions not only about writing but also about the film and television industry. More importantly, the main theme of his program is how, with hard work and determination, the students can achieve anything they wish. Anthony was in elementary school when he was first inspired to become a writer and they too can get inspired right now! It’s just that simple and exciting!
Between writing projects, Anthony is thrilled to give presentations to schools and libraries across the country. Having been fortunate enough to write for so many famous brands, his appearances require very little preparation on the part of the instructors because, most likely, the kids are fans of one or more of the properties for which he’s written.
Anthony’s current presentation features multimedia elements and tells the story of how he became a writer—following an exciting path through a career in photography and special effects. His appearances have been described as the “rock-n-roll” author visits since he comes with an animated presentation, humor, audio/visual elements, loads of energy, and a guitar—that’s right, a guitar!
His life’s journey has given him unique experience and the ability to share behind-the-scenes knowledge, tell stories, and answer questions not only about writing but also about the film and television industry. More importantly, the main theme of his program is how, with hard work and determination, the students can achieve anything they wish. Anthony was in elementary school when he was first inspired to become a writer and they too can get inspired right now! It’s just that simple and exciting!
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January 23, 2015
How would it feel to the best racer in the world. The Book Born to Race by Michael Anthony Steel is a good example for us not to give up at what your good at. Speed Racer is the main character in this book he have to prove to the best racer but the down fall is that all these others teams want him to join there team. So this guy named Royalton wantd Speed to be on his team so bad and the bad part is Royalton wants to destroy Speed Racer. Now how would that feel if you had to go through all of that, thats not right. The point is not to give up the sport you dearly love so much, the so that my friends never give up at what you are good at.
September 25, 2012
I kinda liked it it has 8 art pages full colored the first one was the Mach 5 that the sign above it said Go Speed Racer Go! And the second one is where the Mach 5 and the number 9 car are fighting (that it's known as Car- Fu). And the third one is the two Mach 5's that the signs above them says Racer Motors and Thunderhead Track. And the fourth one is the Mach 6 and the number 9 car are racing in the Thunderhead course. And the fifth one is the Mach 6 that has won the race and I think thats all the art pages they had.
May 10, 2016
The book was great. It was about Speed and how he was offered a partnership with a huge company, but he declines their offer. The owner becomes frustrated, and he wants Speed to stop racing. He was able to get help to stay in the race and keep racing.
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June 29, 2009I just started reading this book today. I saw the Speed Racer movie and enjoyed that, so I hope the book is good, too.
October 20, 2009
Born to race is a great book about a racer who is being bullied a famous car producer, Royalton.
Read this book to find out how this racer survives through all this!
It's a great book!
Read this book to find out how this racer survives through all this!
It's a great book!
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