Slide or Die

Informationen zum Autor Todd Strasser has written many critically acclaimed novels for adults, teenagers, and children, including the award-winning  Can’t Get There from Here ,  Give a Boy a Gun ,  Boot Camp ,  If I Grow Up ,  Famous , and  How I Created My Perfect Prom Date , which became the Fox feature film  Drive Me Crazy . Todd lives in a suburb of New York and speaks frequently at schools. Visit him at ToddStrasser.com.Craig Phillips has been creating cover art and drawings for books, comics, and magazines for nearly two decades. He is most at home working on tales about myth and magic. His latest book— Giants, Trolls, Witches, Beasts: Ten Tales from the Deep, Dark Woods —is a 200-page graphic novel about just that! It will be in stores in May 2017. When he is not drawing and writing, he likes to swim in the lakes and walk in the forests and mountains of New Zealand. Visit him at CraigPhillips.com.au. Klappentext Part surfing! part racing! drifting--the car craze popularized in Japanese manga--is the art of sliding a car around a steep! downhill corner without spinning out of control. This new trilogy features Kennin! a boy with a mysterious past and an unnatural talent for drifting. Illustrations. Zusammenfassung Drift it. Sling it. Slide it. Shred it.... Just don't get T-boned. Kennin is new to Sin City! running from a tragic past and anxious to start a life outside the gearhead crowd. But he can't resist the lure of all the hot! tricked-out cars in Las Vegas. WhenKennin accidentally proves his talent! he's pulled into a tsuiso battle against the toughest drivers around. The competition is cutthroat! and Kennin's outsider status only makes it worse. With ugly rivalries and vicious sabotage all around him! Kennin's ride will be gut-wrenchingly dangerous...and totally amping.

Product details

• Authors: Todd Strasser, Todd/ Phillips Strasser, Strasser Todd
• Assisted by: Craig Phillips (Illustration)
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster USA
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 14 to 99
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.01.2006
• EAN: 9781416905813
• ISBN: 978-1-4169-0581-3
• No. of pages: 198
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 127 mm x 13 mm
• Series: Drift X; DriftX; DriftX; Drift X
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Children's books up to 11 years of age; YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Sports & Recreation / General, General fiction (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Action and adventure stories, Adventure stories (Children's / Teenage), Personal & social issues (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage: Personal and social topics, Sporting stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Sporting stories, YOUNG ADULT FICTION / Social Themes / General