Delve Deeper into Racing Dreams A Film by Marshall Curry

This resource list, compiled by Patrick, Danica, with Laura Farrey, Tom. Game On: The All- Gina Blume of the Monroe Morton. Crossing the Line. New American Race to Make Township Public Library, York: Touchstone, 2007. Champions of Our Children. includes books, films and other This is a collection of inspirational New York: ESPN, 2008. materials related to the issues stories and insights into this Investigative journalist Tom Farrey presented in the film Racing author’s groundbreaking success examines the lives of child athletes Dreams. from go-karting to becoming an and the consequences associated Indy car champion. with extreme competition at an Fondly described as "Talladega early age, including rising obesity Nights meets Catcher in the Rye," Wood, Denise. NASCAR Women: rates, unruly sideline behavior, and Racing Dreams chronicles a year in At the Heart of Racing. Phoenix: reduced activity in children. the life of three tweens who dream David Bull Publishing, 2003. of becoming NASCAR drivers. The Denise Wood, a journalist and Hyman, Mark. Until It Hurts: film by Marshall Curry (Oscar®- public relations representative for America's Obsession with Youth nominated Street Fight, POV 2005; several race teams, reveals the Sports and How It Harms Our Sundance winner If a Tree Falls, integral part women have played Kids. Boston: Beacon Press, POV 2011) is a humorous and both behind the scenes and in the 2010. heartbreaking portrait of racing, public eye of the NASCAR Journalist and Professor Mark young love and family struggle. organization. Hyman investigates the perils of today’s youth sports culture and the ADULT NONFICTION Coming of Age outcome of coaches and parents pushing children beyond their Karting Davis, John A. Don't Take It physical and emotional limits. Personally: A Parent's Guide to Bondurant, Bob, and Ross Surviving Adolescence. Break Murphy, Shane. The Cheers and Bentley. Bob Bondurant on Race Inn Books, 2004. the Tears: A Healthy Alternative Kart Driving. Minneapolis: This is a practical handbook for to the Dark Side of Youth Sports Motorbooks, 2002. parents understanding adolescence. Today. Hoboken: Jossey-Bass, Kart-driving school owner 1999. Bondurant and school staff provide Stiffelman, Susan. Parenting Advice and approach for both fundamentals for karters including without Power Struggles: parents and coaches to cope with physics of kart performance on the Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids the stress and competition course, training, testing, racing in While Staying Cool, Calm and associated with youth sports. various weather conditions, and Connected. New York: Morgan mental preparation. James Publishing, 2009. ADULT FICTION Family therapist Stiffelman offers Gidley, Memo, and Jeff Grist. parental advice on dealing with Levy, BS. The Last Open Road. Karting: Everything You Need to daily decision-making encountered Illinois: Think Fast Ink, 1998. Know. Minneapolis: while raising children. Topics A cult-classic original, The Last Motorbooks, 2006. include techniques for parents to Open Road is a coming-of-age story Former kart racer Gidley provides keep their cool when kids talk back about a 19-year-old New Jersey gas in-depth instructions for beginner and act out, transforming station mechanic learning about life, kart racers. frustration and aggression exhibited love and the joys and perils of by children into cooperation, and motor racing in the Eisenhower Sanches, Joao Diniz. The Karting helping children deal with fifties. Manual: The Complete behavioral issues such as anxiety Beginner's Guide to Competitive and depression. Stein, Garth. The Art of Racing Kart Racing, 2nd Edition. in the Rain. New York: Somerset (UK): Haynes Youth & Sports HarperCollins Publishers, 2008. Publishing, 2011. Enzo knows he is different from This is a guide on racing Baltzell, Amy, and Richard D. other dogs: a philosopher with a fundamentals for novice to Ginsburg and Stephen Durant. nearly human soul (and an experienced kart racers. Whose Game Is It, Anyway?: A obsession with opposable thumbs), Guide to Helping Your Child Get he has educated himself by Women & Racing the Most from Sports, Organized watching television extensively, and by Age and Stage. New York: by listening very closely to the Guthrie, Janet. Janet Guthrie: A Mariner Books, 2006. words of his master, Denny Swift, Life at Full Throttle. Miami: Practicing clinical psychologists and an up-and-coming race car driver. Sports Media Publishing, 2005. an Olympic athlete present case Through Denny, Enzo has gained Janet Guthrie writes a memoir studies about how sports tremendous insight into the human chronicling two decades of participation affects childhood condition, and he sees that life, like challenges as a pioneer in the male- development. racing, isn't simply about going fast. dominated world of racecar driving.

Delve Deeper into Racing Dreams A Film by Marshall Curry

NON-FICTION FOR YOUNG Knowles, John. A Separate “Senna.” A film by Asif Kapadia. READERS Peace. New York: Scribner, Universal Pictures, 2010. TRT: 2003 (reprint). 106 minutes. Courtney, Vicki. BeTween: A Best-selling American coming-of- This documentary feature spans the Preteen Girl's Guide to Life. age classic set in a New England racing legend’s years as an F1 Nashville: B&H Books, 2006. boarding school in the early 1940’s. driver. Far more than a film for F1 (Age level: 9 and up) An The many facets of boyhood fans, Senna unfolds a remarkable insightful book for preteen girls that adolescence are illustrated through story in a remarkable manner, looks and reads like an irresistibly two roommates during one summer eschewing many standard fun magazine, BeTween offers a with World War II looming in the documentary techniques in favor of wealth of wisdom to a booming and background. a more cinematic approach that most impressionable audience. makes full use of astounding Reilly, Matthew. Hover Car footage, much of which is drawn David, Jack. Go-Kart Racing. Racer. Pan Childrens, 2005. In from F1 archives and previously Danbury: Children’s Press, the world of the near future, people unseen. 2008. travel everywhere in cars that hover This is a survey for elementary four feet above the ground. This “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of students about the history and brilliant new technology has Ricky Bobby.” A film by Adam technology behind kart racing. brought with it the invention of a McKay. Columbia Pictures, 2006. new super-fast, super-dangerous, TRT: 108 minutes. Dobson, Dr. James. Preparing competitive sport ...hover car In Talladega Nights champion for Adolescence: How to Survive racing. Part race-car driver, part NASCAR driver Ricky Bobby (Will the Coming Years of Change. fighter pilot, all superstar: Jason Ferrell) uses his best friend Cal Portland: Gospel Light, 2005. Chaser is a champion hover car Naughton Jr. (John C. Reilly) to Dobson, popular family psychologist racer. But now he's pitted against keep his # 1 status. Things go and founder of Focus on the Family, the best young racers on the planet awry when Bobby is abandoned by provides advice for adolescents, - with the ultimate prize at stake! Naughton and challenged on the including how to deal with peer track by French Formula One driver pressure, sexual development, Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Jean Gerard (Sacha Baron Cohen). decision-making, and handling Rye. New York: Back Bay Books independence. (re-issue), 1951. Classic coming-of-age story about Etnier, Jennifer L. Bring Your two days in the life of 16-year-old "A" Game: A Young Athlete's Holden Caulfield searching for truth Guide to Mental Toughness. in the adult world after being Chapel Hill: The University of expelled from prep school. North Carolina Press, 2009. This book provides strategies for young athletes, including confidence FILMS/DOCUMENTARIES building, goal setting, and how to create pre–performance routines to “3: The Dale Earnhardt Story.” A optimize performance during film by Russell Mulcahy. ESPN competition. Original Entertainment, 2004. TRT: 92 minutes. Savage, Jeff. Danica Patrick. This television drama starring Barry Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Pepper as Dale Earnhardt chronicles Group, 2010. one of the most legendary drivers in Suitable for elementary school NASCAR history from his humble students, this is a biography about beginning as a mill worker to one of the most successful and dynamic the most aggressive drivers on the female Indy car driver. track.

FICTION FOR YOUNG READERS “Days of Thunder.” A film by Tony Scott. Paramount King, Stephen. The Body. White Pictures, 1990. TRT: 107 Plains: Pearson ELT, 1999. minutes. A thriller set in 1960’s America This action film stars Tom Cruise as about four adolescent boys Cole Trickle, a hot-tempered driver transitioning from childhood to new on the scene to the world of adulthood during a trek in search of NASCAR stock car racing. the body of a boy killed by a train. “Kart Racer.” A film by Stuart Gillard. MGM, 2005. TRT: 94 minutes. A coming-of-age story, this film stars Randy Quaid as the father of an ambitious kart racer.