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1) Joyland
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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.
4) Zyla & Kai
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The story of how a cynic and a hopeless romantic become friends, fall in love, and break up unfolds from their different perspectives.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Andy and his cousin Marnie visit HorrorLand and Andy takes home a tooth that can grant wishes and came from a dog with evil powers, at first they are thrilled about the wishes, but then things start going wrong.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The children trapped in HorrorLand have found a way to escape from the horrific amusement park into Panic Park, and they turn against Luke and Lizzy Morris when they warn them that they may actually be safer in HorrorLand.
Author
Series
Five people you meet in Heaven volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eddie awakes in the afterlife, where he learns that heaven is not a destination. It's a place where your life is explained to you by five people, some of whom you knew, others who may have been strangers. One by one, from childhood to soldier to old age, Eddie's five people revisit their connections to him on earth, illuminating the mysteries of his "meaningless" life, and revealing the haunting secret behind the eternal question: "Why was I here?"....
Author
Series
Mike Lomax and Terry Biggs mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
An accomplished executive with a troubled past navigates a new relationship with her boss . . . but she's about to learn that love is a roller coaster ride.To the world, amusement park executive Hailey Ashton is a woman on her way up. Few know that beneath her tough exterior, she leads a life of quiet emptiness in the shadow of her gorgeous sister. Then Hailey meets Tyler Scott, her wealthy, self-assured new boss and the single father...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 25
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Aldens search for carousel horses that have disappeared from an amusement park.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"She has a to-do list a mile long and falling for her coworker isn't on it -- yet somehow he's become her top priority in this romantic comedy from the author of Love in the Time of Serial Killers. Lauren Fox is the bookkeeper for Cold World, a tourist destination that's always a winter wonderland despite being located in humid Orlando, Florida. Sure, it's ranked way below any of the trademarked amusement parks and maybe foot traffic could be better....
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A mathematically gifted sixth-grader is recruited by a group of students to game the system at the biggest theme park in the world and win the big prize.
Author
Series
Platypus Police Squad volume 2
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Detectives Rick Zengo and Corey O'Malley investigate foul play at the opening of the Kalamazoo City Dome, the world's largest indoor amusement complex"--
Author
Series
Posadas County mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"What do you do when you inherit $330 million after taxes? If you're New Mexico rancher Miles Waddell, you build a dream."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
While working at country music legend Wanda Jean's amusement park, polar opposites Emmett and Luke become inseparable until a long-lost secret about Emmett's idol and Luke's grandmother, a disgraced singer, comes to light.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Luke, Lizzy, and the other children have escaped HorrorLand, but to get out of Panic Park, where they are now trapped, they must join forces with an old enemy to defeat a villain named The Menace and overcome a friend's treachery.
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