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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Before seeing Jurassic World film this June read the original, multimillion copy number 1 bestselling thriller that inspired the first major motion picture Jurassic Park. On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now one of mankind's most thrilling fantasies has come true and the first dinosaurs that the Earth has seen in the...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 630L
Language
English
Description
The accident that killed Eddie left an indelible mark on Annie. It took her left hand, which needed to be surgically reattached. Injured, scarred, and unable to remember why, Annie's life is forever changed by a guilt-ravaged mother who whisks her away from the world she knew. Bullied by her peers and haunted by something she cannot recall, Annie struggles to find acceptance as she grows. When, as a young woman, she reconnects with Paulo, her childhood...
3) Swamplandia!
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Twelve year old Ava must travel into the Underworld part of the swamp 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...
4) Swim to me
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
Delores Walker is looking for a fresh start in Florida, joining a group of swimmers for a Florida tourist attraction, and discovers a life she never imagined.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
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....
6) Joyland
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this prequel to the "Jurassic World" movies, college freshman Claire Dearing interns at the soon-to-open Jurassic World theme park, where she falls in love with fellow student Justin and uncovers a sinister plot.
Freshman year of college is full of challenges - there are messy roommates, cranky professors, and disgusting dining halls. But for Claire Dearing, add “How to properly avoid being eaten by a dinosaur” to that list. The year is 2004,...
8) Dunk
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
520L
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
Jurassic Park volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
People It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end--the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. There are rumors that something has survived.
10) The keep of ages
Author
Series
Vault of dreamers trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the fast-paced, high-stakes conclusion to Caragh M. O'Brien's Vault of Dreamers trilogy, Rosie travels to a derelict theme park to shut down dream mining once and for all. Driven by fear when Dean Berg kidnaps her family, Rosie Sinclair strikes out across the country to rescue them. When an elusive trail leads her to Grisly Valley, the contaminated ruin of a horror theme park, Rosie has to consider that Berg may once again be manipulating her every...
11) The Kingdom
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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.
12) Thrill ride
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Megan has the perfect summer job at an amusement park, but when super-hot Parker shows up, Megan finds out that love is the scariest thrill ride of them all.
13) Utopia
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Utopia, a theme park featuring high-tech computers and robotics, becomes the scene of a confrontation between the engineer who designed the park's wizardry and a gang of criminals who are holding the park's visitors hostage to their demands.
14) Hot dog girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
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.
15) Tiltawhirl John
Author
Pub. Date
1990.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
Description
A fifteen-year-old runaway discovers that a carnival's razzle-dazzle doesn't shield it from the cruelties of life.
16) Devoured
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Rising high school senior Megan has been haunted by her twin for ten years, but now Remy is trying to warn her about terrible danger surrounding Megan's summer job at an amusement park called the Land of Enchantment.
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