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Author
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
322 p. (large print) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Eddie is a wounded war veteran, an old man who has lived, in his mind, an uninspired life. His job is fixing rides at a seaside amusement park. On his 83rd birthday, a tragic accident kills him as he tries to save a little girl from a falling cart. He 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....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. But as always there is a dark side to the fantasy and after a catastrophe destroys the park's defence systems, the scientists and tourists are left fighting for survival.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Appears on list
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...
4) Malicia
Author
Publisher
Page Street YA
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
341 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
6) Hot dog girl
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lovesick teenager schemes to win the heart of her crush at her amusement park summer job, all while dressed as a hot dog.
Elouise (Lou) Parker just landed a job at Magic Castle Playland-- as a giant dancing hot dog. Her crush, the dreamy Diving Pirate Nick, already has a girlfriend, who is literally the Princess of the park. Her best friend Seeley, the carousel operator, isn't interested in Lou's attempts to set her up with the perfect girl, or...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 131
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"The Aldens visit the shore in New Jersey and help out at an amusement pier that is rumored to be unsafe"--
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
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
Publisher
Oni Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Captain Minky of the Devastorm 5, having failed to conquer yet another planet, decides to take over the Earth, only to end up landing at abandoned amusement park Fun Fun Fun World, where Javi, who wants the park reopened, takes the invaders in hand.
12) The island
Author
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
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
c1984
Physical Desc
216 p. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Megan Miller is determined to resist the charms of cocky, confident David Katcherton, especially after she learns he is after her beloved grandfather's business, but she soon comes to see in him the answer to all her romantic dreams.
15) Terror trips
Series
Publisher
Graphix
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
139 p. : chiefly ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"3 ghoulish graphix tales"--Cover.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Incorporated
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Fountas & Pinnell
G
Physical Desc
44 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fox siblings Fritz and Franny, and their patient dog Fred, are at the amusement park squabbling about which ride is fastest and loudest--but when they are confronted by the biggest, tallest, and loudest roller coaster they decide that maybe Fred would prefer something not quite so scary.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
88 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alexander's class is going on a field trip to an amusement park called Safety Land with really slow, boring rides--but this is Stermont, and when a weird magician tells Alexander and his friends that the roller coaster is haunted things start to get a lot more interesting.
18) Hide: a novel
Author
Publisher
Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
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
Goosebumps. Original series volume 16
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1994
Physical Desc
123 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Morris family gets lost trying to find Zoo Gardens Theme Park but they find HorrorLand Amusement Park instead. It seems like a cool place at first but there's something creepy and weird about the rides.
Author
Publisher
Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 25 cm
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...
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