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1) Joyland
Author
Series
Hard Case Crime volume HCC-112
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, 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) Scared stiff
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Overview: Rick and Kenny's Pa was right -- troubles really do happen in threes. First Pa's truck was robbed, then Pa ran off, leaving Rick, Kenny, and Ma to fend for themselves, and now Ma has disappeared, too. Rick just knows Ma would never leave them on purpose -- but then, where is she? Waiting in Uncle Henry's trailer park doesn't seem like the best way to find out. Instead, the brothers, along with their new friends, Connie and Julie, decide...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Thirteen-year-old Aven was born without arms and has trouble fitting in at her new school after her parents take a job at a dying western theme park, but she makes a new friend in a fellow disabled boy who helps her solve a mystery at the park.
6) The Kingdom
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
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
Parker thrillers volume 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dark and memorable account of Parker trapped in a fenced-in amusement park that has closed for the winter.
9) The aquanaut
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With her father lost at sea, Sophie wanders aimlessly around Aqualand, a marine theme park, until an "aquanaut" breaks into the park's research lab, revealing Aqualand's dark side, and vowing to free the captive marine life with her help.
10) Hot dog girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carly Beth tries to resist calls from an evil mask she defeated a year ago during Halloween while working at an after-school program at the Tumbledown Farms, where a stable of horses and a farm hand died tragically a century ago.
12) Heads, you lose!
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Jessica and her friend Ryan use a double-sided coin they bought at HorrorLand in a coin toss, it transports them back in time to a hostile era where their only chance of survival is to find the prince's missing head.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-olds Andy and Marnie, having enjoyed a day at Horrorland and received a gift souvenir from the Chiller House, take home a wish-granting hounds tooth which is supposedly haunted and soon learn that nothing is ever really free.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Robby creates his own comic strips so he can freak out his friends and family, but now his favorite character Dr. Maniac, a villain with a wicked grin and evil superpowers, is on the loose in the real world!
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Zoe and her cousin Jess eagerly start summer jobs at New Jersey's Fairyland theme park, but Jess does not get her dream role and Zoe is assigned to be personal assistant to the park's "Queen," winning her no friends.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 25
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.
17) Wet and wild!
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grader George gets help from his friend Alex in trying to control the magic burps that take control and cause him to misbehave in funny ways, but when the class bully celebrates his birthday at a water park, anything can happen.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Timeline, Sphere, and Congo, this is the classic thriller of science run amok that took the world by storm.
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
“[Michael] Crichton’s dinosaurs are genuinely frightening.”—Chicago Sun-Times
An...
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
“[Michael] Crichton’s dinosaurs are genuinely frightening.”—Chicago Sun-Times
An...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jillian and Jackson freak out when they suddenly can read people's thoughts. But the trick turns to terror when the twins are stalked by a strange scientist who wants to know exactly what's on their minds. Will the twins ever lead normal lives again?"--P. [4] of cover.
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