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2) Joyland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
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.
3) The Kingdom
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Ana, a half-android, half-human employee of a futuristic fantasy theme park, the Kingdom, faces a charge of murder in a tale told through flashbacks and court transcripts.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan Pub. House
Pub. Date
1996
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Weaves three stories about 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement park. Eddie meets 5 individuals in heaven each with a story to share, a secret to reveal and a lesson. The have profound meanings for Eddie on the real purpose of his life.
8) Swim to me
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
It's a fresh start for Delores Walker when she boards a Greyhound bus bound for Florida. Leaving the Bronx far behind, she's headed for sunny Weeki Wachee Springs, frayed roadside attraction in danger of becoming obsolete with the opening of Walt Disney's latest creation, only miles up the road. Always more suited for a life underwater, Delores joins a group of other aquatic hopefuls in this City of Live Mermaids, where she discovers a world of sequined...
11) The island
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"When the teens arrive, they're stunned: the resort is even better than they imagined. Their hotel rooms are unreal, the park's themed rides are incredible, and the island is hauntingly beautiful. Their jam-packed schedule seems to cover every moment of their visit. But soon they realize that something's missing: getting off the island alive."
Author
Formats
Description
"Raised in a quiet rural community, Anna has always been taught that her mamma's rules are the only path to follow. But, on her 18th birthday, she defies her mamma for the first time in her life and goes to Astroland. She's never been allowed to visit Florida's biggest theme park, so why, when she arrives, does everything about it seem so familiar? And is there a connection to the mysterious letter she receives that same day--a letter addressing her...
16) Wild ride
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2010
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.
17) Puzzle master
Author
Series
Hello neighbor volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Aaron Peterson knows there's nothing he can do about Lucy Yi, but she's all he can think about -- and even if he could stop, there's newspaper articles and rallies to bring his attention back to the lastest tragic accident due to his father.
18) Double-O Dodo
Author
Series
Didi Dodo future spy volume 3
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
A chapter-book series spin-off from Inspector Flytrap by New York Times bestselling author Tom Angleberger!
Didi Dodo, the heroic spy, and Koko Dodo, the cookie chef, are off to solve another kooky caper! In Double-O Dodo, Koko has a big problem: His trusty assistant, the Queen, has been kidnapped! Over a frantic phone call, she tells Koko that she's been kidnapped by a human, which is preposterous-everyone knows that humans aren't real! Luckily,...
20) Swamplandia!
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Twelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the swamp 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...
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