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 the police and the girl that got away.
Contains the complete texts of the novel "Jurassic Park," and its sequel "The Lost World," which tell the continuing story of the disaster that occurs when an eccentric geneticist manages to create dinosaurs from prehistoric DNA.
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.
"Detectives Rick Zengo and Corey O'Malley investigate foul play at the opening of the Kalamazoo City Dome, the world's largest indoor amusement complex"--.
Dierdre Bradley's father decides to brave the ancient curse of the Fear family to build an amusement park on a plot of land where a group of teenagers mysteriously hacked each other to death sixty years earlier and almost immediately the killings begin again.
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.
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.
An account of the attempt, through a hair-raising twenty-four hours on a remote jungle island, to avert a global emergency--a crisis triggered by today's rush to commercialize genetic engineering.
Readers will learn how STEM subjects--science, technology, engineering, and math--make amusement parks fun and safe, and how these classroom concepts are used to run each part of a park's operations.
