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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.
5) Gator
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the amusement park where he had been a happy carousel animal closes, Gator decides to explore the outside world but finds it a very lonely place.
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...
8) Thrill ride
Author
Series
Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Frank and Joe travel to Massachusetts where they investigate a death and other mysterious events occurring at an amusement park.
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
Series
Bones volume 7
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Junior sleuth Jeffrey Bones and his grandfather enjoy a day at the amusement park until their tickets to ride the giant roller coaster mysteriously disappear.
Author
Series
Horrible Harry volume 9
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On the last day of second grade, Song Lee's party at the local amusement park forces Harry to face his fear of elevators when he is expected to ride the Drop of Doom.
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
Boxcar children volume 25
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Aldens search for carousel horses that have disappeared from an amusement park.
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.
Author
Series
Spenser novels volume 41
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry Cimoli and Spenser have been friends for years, yet the old boxing trainer has never asked the private eye for a favor. Until now. A heavy-handed developer is trying to buy up Henry's condo on Revere Beach and sends thugs to move the process along. Soon Spenser and his apprentice, Zebulon Sixkill, find a trail leading to a mysterious and beautiful woman, a megalomaniacal Las Vegas kingpin, and plans to turn to a chunk of land north of Boston...
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