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Author
Series
Second chances (Terri Blackstock) volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan Pub. House
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
Justin Pierce's brainchild, Khaki Kangaroo, is exactly the cartoon theme Andi Sherman needs for her world-class amusement park, Promised Land. In turn, Andi's park is the opportunity that can rocket Justin from obscurity to success. For both of them, spreading the Gospel through their creation is their passion--a shared dream that could cement a powerful partnership. If their shared past hadn't already driven them apart. Now, with construction of...
Author
Series
Five people you meet in Heaven volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
A bitter eighty-three-year-old war veteran who believes his life is meaningless dies while trying to save a little girl's life and finds himself in heaven, where five people from his past--some loved ones, some strangers--explain what his years on Earth really meant, and whether or not he succeeded in saving the child.
4) Joyland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
7) Swamplandia!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Twelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the smamp in order to save her family's dynasty of Bigtree alligator wresting. This novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator wrestling theme park, formerly no. 1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
What should Carly Beth be for Halloween this year? Terrified! Late at night, and ugly green mask is mysteriously calling out to her. If Carly Beth survives the night, even a scary theme park might sound like a vacation. Or maybe not! At Horrorland, every night is Halloween. And those monster masks? They aren't masks at all.
9) Wild ride
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When Mary Alice Brannigan comes home to Ohio to restore the Dreamland amusement park, she doesn't expect to fall in love with a clown. Nor does she expect to find that she's the newest recruit in the Guardia, an elite team of demon fighters formed centuries before to guard the five Untouchables, the most powerful demons in the history of the world, now imprisoned right there in Dreamland.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Scooby-Doo and his friends visit Phantom Gulch, a Wild West theme park, they discover it is closing because the staff and customers are being chased out of town by a spooky cowboy riding a haunted buffalo.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A boy enjoys living quietly by himself at The End of the World until Mr. Constantine Shimmer, "Professional Visionary," builds an inn and an amusement park, demanding that tourists come and have "Fun Without End!"
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While at Waggle World, an amusement park for pets and their owners, Tuckerbean experiences the delights and terrors of a fun house when he wanders away from his master, Peni.
13) Duck
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Duck happily raises a duckling that has wandered into the amusement park where she is a carousel animal, but finds that she cannot teach what she herself has always longed to do--fly--and sets out to find real ducks to instruct him.
15) Alpha
Author
Series
Publisher
Mulholland Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
For the visitors to Wilsonville, the largest theme park in the world, the day began with a smile. By the end, they wonder-will they be able to escape with their lives? Retired Delta Force operator, Master Sergeant Jonathan "Jad" Bell, is Wilsonville's lead undercover security officer. The threat begins with the announcement of a hidden dirty bomb, but quickly becomes something far, far worse.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this enchanting sequel to the number one bestseller The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom tells the story of Eddie's heavenly reunion with Annie--the little girl he saved on earth--in an unforgettable novel of how our lives and losses intersect. Fifteen years ago, in Mitch Albom's beloved novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the world fell in love with Eddie, a grizzled war veteran- turned-amusement park mechanic who died saving...
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While celebrating her brother's Bar Mitzvah on Coney Island, nine-year-old Rebecca Rubin disobeys by going off on her own, leaving her cousin Ana, a recent immigrant, alone.
19) Hide: a novel
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Fourteen contestants, including Mack, a homeless shelter resident who lost everything, embark on a seven-day competition and the chance to win $50,000 if they can successfully play hide-and-seek in an abandoned amusement park without being found and eliminated.
Author
Series
Pearl and Wagner volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Pearl and Wagner, a rabbit and a mouse who are best friends, learn about secrets during a trip to an ice cream factory and an amusement park birthday party.
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