Product Review

Twelve-year-old Ryan Edwards wants desperately to win his club’s go-kart championship, and work his way up to win the Indianapolis 500 someday so he can earn his own “Baby Borg” Trophy – but apparently, someone has other ideas for him! Who is deliberately messing with his go-kart? Also why? and how? -- when it’s carefully locked up every time? Ryan feels that it’s nasty, mean Kyle Sampson, who is fastest on the track, and always puts Ryan down… With his father’s great help, Ryan races hard, with exciting karting action, but each new mystery leads to another – the go-kart tampering, the mysterious go-kart champion Joe Yoshida -- and more. New questions lurk around each and every corner… Ryan’s dog, Sparkplug, suspects trouble from the very beginning, and later discovers a vital clue. And what would Ryan do without his neighbor, Maria, who often jumps in to help? With the unique “snooping” skills of his nine-year-old neighbor, Timmy, who wants to be a de-tek-tiv someday, all the mysteries are finally solved. From the first chapter, Chasing The Checkered Flag – an intense blend of high-speed racing facts and fiction – will keep each reader reading, and guessing, until the very end.