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Lets Roll

Lets Roll

Lets Roll

MONSTER

TRUCKS

by Candice Ransom

FOCUS

READERS

Candice Ransom used to ride on her stepfathers tractor. She loved trips in their

green pickup, and she thinks old cars are the best. When she isnt writing books for

children, she is driving on the back roads of Virginia in her own little red truck.

About the Author

www.northstareditions.com

Copyright 2017 by North Star Editions, Lake Elmo, MN 55042. All rights

reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any

means without written permission from the publisher.

Produced for North Star Editions by Red Line Editorial.

Photographs : Mikhail Kusayev/Dreamstime, cover, 1, 29; Barry Salmons/

Shutterstock Images, 45, 2021; Piotr Zajac/Shutterstock Images, 6; Malcolm

Clarke/AP Images, 89; Maksim Shmeljov/Shutterstock Images, 11, 19; Michael

Stokes/Shutterstock Images, 13; Natursports/Shutterstock Images, 1415, 23;

Marcel Jancovic/Shutterstock Images, 17; Juan Camilo Bernal/Shutterstock

Images, 25; Pavel L Photo and Video/Shutterstock Images, 2627

ISBN

978-1-63517-047-4 (hardcover)

978-1-63517-103-7 (paperback)

978-1-63517-204-1 (ebook pdf)

978-1-63517-154-9 (hosted ebook)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2016951022

Printed in the United States of America

Mankato, MN

November, 2016

978-1-68444-285-0 (e-book)

Synched Read-Along Version by:

Triangle Interactive LLC

PO Box 573

Prior Lake, MN 55372

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1

Flying Trucks

CHAPTER 2

Bigfoot

CHAPTER 3

Monster Truck Basics

CHAPTER 4

Building Better Monster Trucks

HOW IT WORKS

The Power of Triangles

The Power of Triangles

CHAPTER

Two monster trucks line up to race.

Engines roar as the drivers steer

around old cars. One truck drives

right over the cars. The other truck

gets stuck and loses.

Monster trucks jump over

rows of old cars.

FLYING TRUCKS

Two monster trucks line up to race.

Now its time for the freestyle

event. Each truck has seconds

to perform stunts. A monster truck

crushes a row of cars like bugs.

Then the truck stands up on its

Many monster trucks are named after popular

characters.

two back tires. Now the truck slams

down on four wheels. It speeds

toward the smashed cars. The truck

hits the dirt ramp and soars over all

the cars.

People in the arena leap to

their feet. Monster trucks are fun

to watch!

Monster trucks run best on special

truckloads of dirt to fill an arena.

FUN FACT

Bigfoot was the

best-known monster

truck of the 1980s.

In 1974, Bob Chandler bought

a pickup truck. He tested his

four-wheel-drive truck on hills. He

added bigger tires and a stronger

engine. Then he put 48-inch

(122-cm) tires on his truck.

BIGFOOT

CHAPTER

Chandler called his truck Bigfoot.

He took the truck to auto shows and

fairs. Bigfoot became famous.

Chandler decided to drive Bigfoot

over two old cars in a cornfield.

The truck crushed the cars like

soda cans.

Around 19, promoter Bob

George called Bigfoot a monster

truck, and the name stuck.

FUN FACT

Later, Chandler built Bigfoot

This truck had 66-inch (168-cm)

tires that were taken from farm

equipment. When Bigfoot

smashed cars, people went wild.

Each tire on a monster truck weighs more than

pounds (363 kg).

Other people began building their

own giant-size trucks. They raced

them and crushed cars. A new sport

was born.

Chandler worried that the trucks

were not safe. He helped form the

BIGFOOT

Monster Truck Racing Association.

Guidelines controlled the size and

weight of the trucks. Safety rules

protected the drivers and the fans.

Todays monster trucks are much safer than the

monster trucks of the 1980s.

Fans love to get up close

to the monster trucks.

Monster trucks may look like

regular trucks with giant tires,

but they are very different. The

fiberglass body can be molded

into wild shapes. The frame is

made of extra-strong steel tubing.

MONSTER TRUCK

BASICS

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