Dirt Bike Racer [Hardcover]

Matt Christopher (Author), Barry Bomzer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1979

Twelve-year-old Ron Baker finds a minibike while scuba diving and, with the help of a former motorcycle rider and racer, restores the bike and enters competition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 149 pages
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co (Juv); 1st edition (April 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0316139777
• ISBN-13: 978-0316139779
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.8 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,436,706 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Matthew F. Christopher was born on August 16, 1917, in Bath, Pa. He was the oldest of nine children and a talented athlete, playing baseball, football and soccer in high school. He became interested in writing at the age of 14 and in 1940 had his first story published in a detective magazine. He began writing children's books in the mid 1950's with the publication of THE LUCKY BASEBALL BAT (Little, Brown and Company).

Christopher became well-known for his sports fiction novels for children with over 130 titles bearing his name. He was awarded numerous writing honors from state organizations as well as the 1993 Milner Award. Besides books, he had about 275 short stories and articles published in over 65 children and adult magazines over the years. He is considered America's best selling sports book author.

Matt Christopher and his wife Cay were the parents of four children and the grandparents of ten grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. He died in 1997 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet Book, October 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Dirt Bike Racer (Paperback)

I think this book is good. I love dirt bikes and I'm not a big reader, as a mater of fact I don't read at all. If this book got me reading it must be a good book. I recomend this bood to anyone who likes dirt bikes and hope to read more.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dirt Bike Racer Review by Ashton Bradford, June 7, 2005

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A Bradford "ashton" (Wenatchee WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Dirt Bike Racer (Paperback)

Skill and luck, at least that's what Ron thinks. Dirt Bike Racer is about a kid named Ron who finds a mini bike at the bottom of a lake while scuba diving. He wants to replace all the parts, but he doesn't have any money. He gets a job working for Mr. Perkins. He finds out Mr. Perkins use to race. Ron finally makes it to a race, but wrecks. I think the theme of this book is sports. The author of this book is Matt Christopher and he always writes about sports. What inspired him to write books, was a piece, someone wrote in high school wrote. It inspired him because he wished he could write like that some day. Matt Christopher has written many books some of them are Peach Street, The Extreme Team, and Soccer Cats. A quote he has gone by is "Good judgment comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgment." I think the quote is good because when you do something bad you learn from it. I recommend this book because it's a good and exciting book.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dirt Bike Racer Review, July 12, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Dirt Bike Racer (Paperback)

I would recommend this book for anyone in to dirt bikes because its tell about the struggle to be a Dirt Bike Racer. This is an exciting story. "The bike almost left me sitting there on the dirt as it sprang under me like a live animal." Also, this book has many more exciting parts such as, " Terror gripped me as both came up on it, side by side. Then, fearing that we'd collide while making the turn." These are just a few of the exciting parts of the book Dirt Bike Racer. In conclusion, if you are interested in dirt bikes or exciting books, read the exciting book Dirt Bike Racer.