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1) 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.
2) 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...
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.
Author
Series
Second chances (Terri Blackstock) volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan Pub. House
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
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
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 16
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Discover the original bone-chilling adventures that made Goosebumps one of the bestselling children's book series of all time!
Werewolf Village. The Doom Slide. The Coffin Cruise. These are just a few of the terrifying attractions that await Luke and Lizzy Morris at HorrorLand. Step right up and join the Morris family as they ride each ride--and scream each scream--for the very first time. Because it might also be their last.Now with bonus features!...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
It's a whole new ride from master of horror and bestselling author R.L. Stine--with a story so fiendish that it can't be contained to just one book!
Abby and Peter are staying with Uncle Jonathan in an eerie old village. Their uncle knows a lot about Egypt, and his living room even looks like an ancient tomb. Do other secrets lurk inside the house? MUM's the word! Next, Abby and Peter will get all WRAPPED up in a terrifying mystery. Slappy the Dummy...
Author
Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
It's the end of the ride--for now! Fright-master R.L. Stine saves the most shocking surprises for last as all of HorrorLand's secrets are revealed!
Luke and Lizzie thin they'll be safe in Panic Park. But they're wrong. Because Panic Park is home to The Menace, a two-faced villain with a twisted plan to trap them forever.They learn they've been sharing secrets with a traitor, who's been tricking them all along! To beat The Menace and his rotten crew,...
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
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Michael sneaks into his superstitious teacher's house to play a prank on her, he discovers that she is an evil alien hatching up a brood of monsters to take over the Earth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Boone and his younger sister Heather are excited about spending the summer at Camp Hither, and at first they dismiss the horror stories about snakes that one camper is spreading, but then strange things start happening.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Julie picks up a camera at a yard sale, only to discover that it is an evil camera that makes bad things happen to people that it takes pictures of, and she must destroy it before it kills her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
What should Carly Beth be for Halloween this year? Terrified! Late at night, and ugly green mask is mysteriously calling out to her. If Carly Beth survives the night, even a scary theme park might sound like a vacation. Or maybe not! At Horrorland, every night is Halloween. And those monster masks? They aren't masks at all.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Lizzie and Luke have uncovered secret information about the freaky amusement park. Lizzie wants to help the others, but since the twins don't trust her, they're all in a deadlock. Did someone say DEAD? A trip through the Hall of Mirrors lets the kids escape HorrorLand and enter Panic Park. Safe at last! Or are they? Why are there no exits? What's in the Tunnel of Hate? Have they been tricked again?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Twins Jillian and Jackson are worried when they develop strange mental powers, and then an odd scientist from the mysterious and sinister Institute develops an interest in what they can do and starts following them around.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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.
18) Jurassic Park
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
An American bioengineering research firm erects a theme park on a Caribbean island, complete with living dinosaurs, and invites a group of scientists to be its first terrified guests
19) Dunk
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
While hoping to work as the clown in an amusement park dunk tank on the New Jersey shore the summer before his junior year in high school, Chad faces his best friend's serious illness, hassles with police, and the girl that got away.
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.
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