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Digby O'Day in the fast lane

Digby O'Day and Percy are best friends. This daring canine duo can find adventure anywhere , even entering an All-Day Race! Digby is sure he can win, especially with Percy as his co-driver. But when the race starts and Digby and Percy are quickly left in the dust, it seems like they don't stand a ch...

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Main Author: Hughes, Shirley, 1927- (Author)
Other Authors: Vulliamy, Clara (Illustrator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Somerville, Massachusetts : Candlewick Press, 2014.
Edition:First U.S. edition.
Series:Hughes, Shirley, 1927- Digby O'Day ; 1.
Subjects:
Automobile racing > Juvenile fiction.
Dogs > Juvenile fiction.
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Summary:Digby O'Day and Percy are best friends. This daring canine duo can find adventure anywhere , even entering an All-Day Race! Digby is sure he can win, especially with Percy as his co-driver. But when the race starts and Digby and Percy are quickly left in the dust, it seems like they don't stand a chance. They meet peril after peril-- a car that breaks down (and slides back to the edge of a cliff!), a near miss with an oncoming train, and worst of all, Digby's archenemy, Lou Ella, who is also in the race and will stop at nothing to win. In a day full of twists, turns, thrills, and surprises, anything can happen. Who will come out ahead? And will Lou Ella get her comeuppance?
Physical Description:96 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 19 cm.
Audience:Elementary Grade.
ISBN:9780763673697 (hardback) :
0763673692 (hardback)
Author Notes:Author and illustrator Shirley Hughes was born near Liverpool, U. K. on July 16, 1927. She studied drawing and costume design at Liverpool School of Art and the Ruskin School of Drawing in Oxford. At first, she was an illustrator of other author's works, but in 1960 she published Lucy and Tom's Day, which was the first book she wrote and illustrated. Since then, she has written over 50 books and has illustrated 200 children's books. In 2015, she wrote a young adult novel entitled, Hero on a Bicycle. She won the Kate Greenaway Medal for Dogger in 1977, the Eleanor Farjeon Award for distinguished services to children's literature in 1984, and the OBE for services to children's literature in 1998. Hughes was given two Honorary Degrees, one from the University of Liverpool in 2004, and the other from the University of Chester in 2012. In 2017, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Shirley Hughes died at her home in London on February 25, 2022. She was 94.

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