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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
880L
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English
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"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...
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We've never been more educated and entertained. We have technological tools our parents could only dream of, and we are saturated with information, amusement, and recreation. Yet more than ever, we are starving for hope. School shootings are all too familiar. Depression is on the rise. And more people than ever are orchestrating their own deaths. In America alone, the suicide rate has increased 24 percent in fewer than twenty years. If a disease saw...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
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....
6) Nope
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Two siblings who run a California horse ranch discover something wonderful and sinister in the skies above, and the owner of an adjacent theme park tries to profit from the mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon.
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Hardy Boys adventures volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
While attending an amusement park under the new ownership of their friend Daisy, Joe and Frank investigate the disappearance of a patron who was last seen riding a hit attraction, an event that has threatened Daisy's family's livelihood.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 630L
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English
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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...
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Boxcar children volume 25
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
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"When the Alden children see odd lights coming from a closed amusement park and they receive a phone call warning them to stay away, they are determined to figure out what is going on at the park"--Title verso page.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 610L
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English
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Presents Lewis Carroll's story of a little girl who falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters, and includes drawings by British cartoonist and children's book illustrator Ralph Steadman.
11) Never say genius
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Genius Files volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
As their cross-country journey with their parents continues through the midwest, twins Coke and Pepsi, now thirteen, again face strange assassins at such places as the first McDonald's restaurant and Cedar Point amusement park.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
"Best friends Matt and Eric are hatching a plan for one big final adventure together before Eric moves away: during the marching band competition at a Giant Amusement Park, they will sneak away to a nearby comics convention and meet their idol--a famous comic creator. Without cell phones. Or transportation. Or permission. Of course, their final adventure together is more than just that--really, it's a way for the boys to celebrate their friendship,...
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Sweet seasons volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
Description
Forced by her father to get a summer job, seventeen-year-old Candace makes the most of selling cotton candy in an amusement park, despite a botched nametag, vindictive co-workers, lewd patrons, and growing distant from her best friend.
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Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman's groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media -- from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs -- it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when...
16) The island
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A visit to a private amusement park is the trip of a lifetime for a group of teen influencers, until they learn that getting off the island alive is not part of the plan.
"Jagged Island: a private amusement park for the very rich-- or the very influential. Liam, James, Will, Ava, Harper, and Paisley are social media influencers with millions of followers. They have been invited for an exclusive weekend before the park opens: they'll make posts and...
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English
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"This is where it all started! The first classic Phryne Fisher mystery, featuring our delectable heroine, cocaine, communism and adventure. Phryne leaves the tedium of English high society for Melbourne, Australia, and never looks back. The London season is in full fling at the end of the 1920s, but the Honorable Phryne Fisher-- she of the green-gray eyes, diamant garters and outfits that should not be sprung suddenly on those of nervous dispositions--...
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Sweet seasons volume 03
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
Candace gets a job at The Zone amusement park over Christmas break, while also teaching a Bible studies class, nursing a hurt knee, trying to do something for a grieving friend, and suffering doubts about her boyfriend Kurt.
19) Joyland
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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.
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