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1) Joyland
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English
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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) Swamplandia!
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English
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The Bigtree children struggle to protect their Florida Everglades alligator-wrestling theme park from a sophisticated competitor after losing their parents.
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English
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Battle of the Books Grades 5-6
Beehive Winners (All Categories)
If You Like Wonder
Junior Fiction Realistic Fiction
Beehive Winners (All Categories)
If You Like Wonder
Junior Fiction Realistic Fiction
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New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.
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English
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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....
5) Scared stiff
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English
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When their mother disappears, two brothers go to stay with a great uncle in a mobile home park next to an abandoned amusement park and begin a search which puts them in danger.
6) See me run
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Holiday House
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English
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A dog has a fun-filled day at the dog park, in this easy-to-read story.
9) Duck
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English
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Duck happily raises a duckling that has wandered into the amusement park where she is a carousel animal, but finds that she cannot teach what she herself has always longed to do--fly--and sets out to find real ducks to instruct him.
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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.
13) Gator
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Publisher
Candlewick
Pub. Date
2007.
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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.
14) I got the rhythm
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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On a trip to the park with her mother, a young girl hears a rhythm coming from the world around her and begins to move to the beat, finally beginning an impromptu dance in which other childen join her.
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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.
18) La La Rose
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Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
c2004.
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English
Description
La La Rose, a young girl's stuffed rabbit, gets lost in Luxembourg Gardens.
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Goosebumps HorrorLand volume 1
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English
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Britney battles against her cousin's new ventriloquist dummy and discovers a frightening secret in a new amusement park called HorrorLand.
20) Spaghetti park
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Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Angelo and his grandfather help rejuvenate a local park.
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