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English
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Fifteen years ago Eddie, an amusement park mechanic, died saving the life of a young girl named Annie. The accident took Annie's left hand, which needed to be surgically reattached. Scarred, and unable to remember why, Annie was whisked away from the world she knew by her guilt-ravaged mother. As a young woman Annie reconnects with Paulo, her childhood love, and believes she has finally found happiness. When their wedding night ends in an unimaginable...
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English
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Weaves three stories about 83-year-old Eddie, the head maintenance person at Ruby Point Amusement park. Eddie meets 5 individuals in heaven each with a story to share, a secret to reveal and a lesson. The have profound meanings for Eddie on the real purpose of his life.
3) Happy paws
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Series
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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While Layla and her three Bots (Beep, Boop, and Bop) are setting up for their rock band's performance, she gets some bad news, Happy Days Amusement Park is closing; Layla thinks she has the perfect solution: turn the place into an amusement park for dogs--but the new rides have to pass a safety inspection before Happy Paws Amusement Park can open.
Publisher
Hallmark Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Eddie is an eighty-three-year-old war veteran. He spends his days maintaining the rides at Ruby Pier, a seaside amusement park. Now Eddie's own life is about to come to an end. One morning, an accident occurs on one of the rides. In front of a horrified crowd, Eddie attempts to save the five-year-old's life. The last thing he sees is the little girl's frightened face, the last thing he feels is the child's hands in his. Then, a blinding flash of light...
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Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
One day at HorrorLand: The Morris family are on their way to Zoo Garden, however seem to have lost their way. They soon find themselves in a theme park called "Horror Land." Luke and Lizzy want to go onto a few rides, so their parents decide to ask for directions. However soon the Morris family discovers that this theme park is not entirely safe.
Welcome to Camp Nightmare: It's Billy's first time at summer camp. So far, the camp appears to be a perfectly...
7) Wonder wheel
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
On Coney Island in the 1950s, a lifeguard tells the story of a middle-aged carousel operator and his beleaguered wife.
10) Roller coasters
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Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"This title explains the history of roller coasters and the exciting and stomach-churning rides they are today. Readers will learn that roller coaster history began in Russia with giant ice slides called "Russian mountains." Today coasters feature extreme speeds, twists, flips, and 100-foot drops." -- iPage.
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Series
Scary tales volume 2
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Amusement park-loving Samantha receives a ticket to a very special ride that takes her on a heart-stopping adventure along with her equally terrified companion.
12) Bear flies high
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Bear usually spends his days on the beach, singing and watching birds, but when he leaves to visit a carnival, his dream of flying may just come true.
14) Water rides
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids Jumbo, an imprint of Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This title looks at the history of water rides and the exciting splash-makers they are today. Readers will learn that early water slides were quite large and ran into lakes. Log shoots and flumes find their beginnings in dark water rides, like the Tunnel of Love and other river rides. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids Jumbo, an imprint of Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This title explains that today's interactive rides are based off of old mill rides in which people rode in boats or carts on tracks through dark tunnels. Readers will learn that today's interactive rides involve much more complicated technology that takes riders on exciting adventures that they can participate in. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Jumbo is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO.
16) Fairground rides
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a captone imprint
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Follow the development of fairground rides, as they have grown taller, scarier, and more fantastical through engineering skill, design and ambition.
17) Carousels
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
This title discusses the carousel's amazing history that began with a game played hundreds of years ago by Arab horsemen. The Italian crusaders who witnessed the game called it carosello, or "little battle." Fast forward many years to the bright, loud, and colorful carousels we have today!
18) The giant swing
Author
Series
Ready Freddy! volume 26
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Freddy is back in a brand-new story about a visit to the county fair! What could be more fun than the county fair? Freddy and his friends can't wait to go -- but Max is sure that Freddy will be too scared to go on any of the rides. Freddy is determined to prove Max wrong... but is he brave enough to face the Giant Swing?" --
19) Jungle cruise
Publisher
Disney Press, an imprint of Disney Book Group
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Enjoy the pun-omenal jokes written by the Walt Disney Imagineers and the Jungle Cruise skippers from the world-famous Jungle Cruise attraction. Guests board a boat and travel with a witty and experienced skipper to exotic rivers of the world, and leave smiling with memories of their vibrant voyage. In this book, Erwin Madrid's original illustrations accompany the jokes of the classic attraction, and together they steer readers deeper and deeper into...
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Series
Publisher
Spellbound, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Isabelle wishes she could study physics instead of joining her mom as a popcorn manager at Mt. Olympus Theme Park, but when she finds herself in the middle of the myth of Icarus, she is determined to help Icarus and his father escape from the island with a new invention.
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