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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....
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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.
6) Westworld
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000.
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English
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This story of a technological paradise suddenly turned nightmare is a genuine shocker. For $1000 a day, vacationers can indulge whims at the "theme park" called Westworld where the gunhands and dance-hall girls are all robots programmed to serve the guests' violent and lustful fantasies -- until someting goes wrong with their circuitry.
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Goosebumps HorrorLand volume 10
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English
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Twins Jillian and Jackson are worried when they develop strange mental powers, and then an odd scientist from the mysterious and sinister Institute develops an interest in what they can do and starts following them around.
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The seventh book in the funny and fast-paced InCryptid urban fantasy series returns to the mishaps of the Price family, eccentric cryptozoologists who safeguard the world of magical creatures living in secret among humans. Penance, noun: 1. Punishment for past actions. 2. An attempt to pay for what can't be bought. 3. See also "exile." Antimony Price is on the run. With the Covenant on her tail and her family still in danger, she needs to get far,...
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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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Hyperion
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[2014]
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English
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"Seven super fans have won the trip of a lifetime to meet the master of horror, legendary film director Justin Blake. But things quickly go from delightfully dark to dangerously deadly, when Ivy, Parker, Shayla, Natalie, Frankie, and Garth find themselves trapped in an abandoned amusement park. To earn a ticket out, they must face their darkest demons one ride at a time"--
13) Gator
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Candlewick
Pub. Date
2007.
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English
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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.
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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.
17) Jurassic Park
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[Jurassic Park films] volume 1
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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John Hammond invites his two grandchildren, a chaos theory expert, a paleontologist and a paleobotanist to preview his dream attraction-- Jurassic Park. Set on a remote island, the amazing theme park features cloned dinosaurs. But everything possible goes wrong, and the visit becomes a battle for survival.
18) Zombieland
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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After zombies have overrun the world, a mismatched group of two men and two sisters head for an amusement park that is reportedly safe.
19) Scared stiff
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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.
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