title: Cars: Rushing! Honking! Zooming!
author:  Patricia Hubbell 
description: Author Patricia Hubbell is the author of ten books of poetry for children, including <i>Boo! Halloween Poems and Limericks</i> as well as <i>Trucks: Whizz! Zoom! Rumble!</i> Her poems appear in numerous anthologies. She lives in Easton, Connecticut.
zlib_text: Jabril
  By D. B. Reynolds
  
  Prologue
  Cynthia Leighton sped down the dark highway, hands clenched on the steering wheel, the roar of the
  engine drowning out the sound of her frantic breathing. Her eyes flicked anxiously from the nearly
  empty road to her rearview mirror, where a pair of headlights had suddenly appeared, racing closer
  in the predawn blackness. Already pounding adrenaline spiked even higher, as she floored the gas
  pedal and the big SUV leapt forward in a gratifying burst of speed. She stared at the headlights, low
  to the ground, the cool blue of an expensive sedan, and coming on way too fast. It would be on her in
  seconds. Was it him? Had he discovered her deception and come after her?
  She gripped the wheel tighter, hands spasming a painful protest, as the sedan came up hard on her tail,
  so close she could barely see the headlights any longer. She swerved suddenly, trying to throw him
  off, convinced he would ram her if that's what it took. The SUV threatened to roll, tilting