Three Children Literature Book (9)

Dirt Bike Racer by Matt Christopher- This book is about a boy named Ron and he finds a dirt bike in a lake. Before that he had gone scuba diving with a friend named Tony and that is where Ron had discovered it. So Ron and Tony took it out of the lake and Ron thought to himself that he could fix it up because he had always wanted one. Ron ends up finding a job to pay doe parts. The old man that had given Ron the job had become a friendship only because the old men use to be a dirt bike racer. The old man's nephew and someone else didn't want him to be friends with Ron. Toward the end Ron gets into competitions.

Teaching ideas: I would have the students bring in a mini motoercycle and have them do competitions within the classroom and give out prizes for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place.