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Author
Series
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Tuesday Knight's dream of Broadway stardom has flopped, leaving her unemployed and brokenhearted. Ready to quit kissing frogs and make her own happily-ever-after, she takes a job as a princess in Everland, Georgia's historical amusement park. Mayor Beau Marino lives an unenchanted existence-all work, no play-which is fine by him. After his marriage ended in disaster, the last thing he wants in his life is more drama. But Everland's new free spirit...
42) The island
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A visit to a private amusement park is the trip of a lifetime for a group of teen influencers, until they learn that getting off the island alive is not part of the plan.
Jagged Island: a private amusement park for the very rich-- or the very influential. Liam, James, Will, Ava, Harper, and Paisley are social media influencers with millions of followers. They have been invited for an exclusive weekend before the park opens: they'll make posts and...
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
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
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In the sweltering summer of 1915, Pin, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a carnival fortune-teller, dresses as a boy and joins a teenage gang that roams the famous Riverview amusement park, looking for trouble. Unbeknownst to the well-heeled city-dwellers and visitors who come to enjoy the midway, the park is also host to a ruthless killer who uses the shadows of the dark carnival attractions to conduct his crimes. When Pin sees a man enter the Hell...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"It's 1994 and Lenore Littlefield is a junior at Briarwood School for Girls. She plays basketball. She hates her roommate. History is her favorite subject. She has told no one that she's pregnant. Everything, in other words, is under control. Meanwhile, Disney has announced plans to build a new theme park just up the road, a "Technicolor simulacrum of American History" right in the middle of one of the most history-rich regions of the country. If...
46) Wonder Park
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
One magical day, June is running through the woods to find her way home where she discovers an old rollercoaster car and climbs inside. She suddenly finds herself in Wonderland, an amusement park she had created in her mind and put aside. All of her rides and characters are brought to life but are falling into disarray without her. Now, with the help of her fun and lovable park characters, June will have to put the wonder back in Wonderland before...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Devil Land has been the world's premiere horror-themed amusement park for over 50 years, home to the scariest ride ever created- The Devil's Due. But behind it lies a deadly truth about reclusive founder Arthur Dante and the choices he made to ensure his success. Now his children- Samhain and Halloween- will discover the true horror behind their family legacy, and that all their dreams may be founded on the stuff of nightmares..." --
48) GremoryLand
Author
Publisher
WEBTOON Unscrolled
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Six old school friends are invited to be the first visitors to GremoryLand, a new horror theme park that promises an experience as unique as it is scary. But once they walk through the gates, there is no turning back, and they find themselves facing their most desperate fears in order to survive. The friends need to stay united, but GremoryLand will do everything in its power to tear them apart. To escape this twisted carnival, they have to survive...
Author
Publisher
Ten Speed Graphic
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"What would you do for $50,000? For Mack, the prize money would be life changing. She knows her time at the women's shelter is already up. And she's good at hiding. At least this time, her life doesn't depend on it--or so she thinks. The challenge is simple. All fourteen competitors must spend seven days hiding in an abandoned amusement park from dawn to dusk. There's only one rule: Don't get caught. But as the people around her begin disappearing...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Billy and Sheena go with their Uncle, Dr. Deep, to search for treasure and are pursued by pirates who have been dead for two hundred years, and when Billy and Sheena return to land and visit Horrorland they encounter their worse fears.
51) Lifetime passes
Author
Publisher
Surely Books, an imprint of Abrams
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Lifetime Passes is a twisted tale about magical theme parks, surprising loopholes, and new friends Jackie Chavez loves her local theme park, Kingdom Adventure, more than anything else in the world. So, when her tía Gina says they can't afford passes for next season, Jackie is crushed. But her next trip to the park exposes a dark secret: if someone dies on the property the rest of their party gets lifetime passes. Jackie and her friends plot to bring...
Author
Series
InCryptid volume 7
Publisher
DAW Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The seventh book in the funny and fast-paced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the world of magical creatures living in secret among humans. Penance, noun: 1. Punishment for past actions. 2. An attempt to pay for what can't be bought. 3. See also "exile." Antimony Price is on the run. With the Covenant on her tail and her family still in danger, she needs to get far,...
Author
Series
Marya Khan volume 4
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Excited for spring break, third-graders Marya, Hanna, and Alexa plan their visit to Skye Adventure Park, determined to experience all the park has to offer, but when Marya becomes determined to beat Alexa on the park's obstacle course she loses sight of everything else the park has to offer.
55) Slappy New Year!
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Ray Gordon loves to scare his younger brother, Brandon. It's not hard considering Brandon is terrified of everything--loud noises, roller coasters, and especially the wooden dummy, Slappy, that Ray got from Jonathan Chiller's HorrorLand gift shop. In order to throw his big New Year's Eve party, Ray's parents make him promise to leave Brandon alone. But strange, mean-spirited things keep happening to his little brother, and Slappy always seems to...
56) MAJESTICA
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When disaster strikes at Majestica, a magical creature park, thirteen-year-old maid Hattie and Evelyn, the park owner's spoiled niece, must overcome their differences to save the day.
Author
Series
Dark House volume 1
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Seven super fans have won the trip of a lifetime to meet the master of horror, legendary film director Justin Blake. But things quickly go from delightfully dark to dangerously deadly, when Ivy, Parker, Shayla, Natalie, Frankie, and Garth find themselves trapped in an abandoned amusement park. To earn a ticket out, they must face their darkest demons one ride at a time"--
Author
Series
Rabbit factor volume 1
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
What makes life perfect? Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen knows the answer because he calculates everything down to the very last decimal. And then, for the first time, Henri is faced with the incalculable. After suddenly losing his job, Henri inherits an adventure park from his brother-its peculiar employees and troubling financial problems included. The worst of the financial issues appear to originate from big loans taken from criminal quarters...
59) The hollow dead
Author
Series
Gravekeeper novels volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When Keira first woke alone in a strange forest, she remembered only two things: that she could speak with the dead, helping them move on from the mortal world, and that sinister mask-wearing men were hunting her. She had no idea what she'd done to earn their hatred or what dangerous secrets she may have uncovered. Until now. Peeling back layer upon layer of the mystery surrounding her origins, Keira has finally learned that the strange masked men...
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