Wonder Park: Backyard Roller Coaster

Wonder Park: Backyard Roller Coaster
Author: Trey King
Publisher: LB Kids
Total Pages: 27
Release: 2019-02-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 031644474X

June Bailey loves making things! While she works on Wonderland, the amusement park of her dreams, she decides to bring some of it to the real world by designing and building a roller coaster in her backyard, complete with a loop-the-loop! Will June and her friend Banky make it through the test run in one piece? Based on the whimsical animated film Wonder Park, this storybook includes a pull-out poster! TM & © 2019 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.

Backyard Roller Coaster

Backyard Roller Coaster
Author: Trey King
Publisher:
Total Pages: 24
Release: 2019-02-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781536453164

June Bailey loves making things! While she works on Wonderland, the amusement park of her dreams, she decides to bring some of it to the real world by designing and building a roller coaster in her backyard, complete with a loop-the-loop! Will June a

Wonder Park: A New Adventure!

Wonder Park: A New Adventure!
Author: Trey King
Publisher: LB Kids
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-02-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780316414845

June gets to visit the amusement park of her dreams...but something is wrong with it. Can June and her new friends save Wonderland? Based on the whimsical animated film Wonder Park, this leveled reader introduces June Bailey as she discovers the amusement park she always imagined has come to life, but not in the way she remembers it. June must work together with the animals who run her park in order to save it from forces that threaten to destroy it. Featuring a winning combination of favorite licensed characters and carefully controlled text--reading along or reading alone just got more fun with Passport to Reading! All books include a parent letter, word count, Guided Reading level, and number of sight words. Level 2: Reading out Loud: encourages developing readers to sound out loud, includes more complex stories with simple vocabulary. TM & © 2019 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.

Wonder Park: Meet the Crew!

Wonder Park: Meet the Crew!
Author: Trey King
Publisher: LB Kids
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2019-02-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0316414778

Meet June and all the friends who help bring her imagination to life! Based on the whimsical animated film Wonder Park, this leveled reader introduces June Bailey, a wildly imaginative girl, and her talking animal friends as they work together to save the amusement park from June's dreams from forces that threaten to destroy it. Featuring a winning combination of favorite licensed characters and carefully controlled text--reading along or reading alone just got more fun with Passport to Reading! All books include a parent letter, word count, Guided Reading level, and number of sight words. Level 1: Reading Together: Read short words in simple sentence structures together to begin a reader's journey. TM & © 2019 Paramount Pictures. All Rights Reserved.

Roller Coasters

Roller Coasters
Author: Lynn M. Stone
Publisher: Rourke Publishing (FL)
Total Pages: 52
Release: 2002
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781589521346

Describes different types of roller coasters, their history, and the physics of their construction.

A Roller Coaster for the Twins!

A Roller Coaster for the Twins!
Author: Francine (CRT) Pascal
Publisher: Turtleback
Total Pages: 91
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780606103312

When their new friend presents them with a gift of their very own roller coaster in their backyard, Jessica and Elizabeth invite all their friends over for rides, but things get out of hand when the entire school shows up.

Kit and Kaboodle Ride a Roller Coaster

Kit and Kaboodle Ride a Roller Coaster
Author: Michelle Portice
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021
Genre: JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN: 9781685055325

Friends Kit and Kaboodle enjoy a fun-filled day at the Wonder Park amusement park.

Family theme parks, happiness and children’s consumption: From roller-coasters to Pippi Longstocking

Family theme parks, happiness and children’s consumption: From roller-coasters to Pippi Longstocking
Author: David Cardell
Publisher: Linköping University Electronic Press
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2016-09-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9176859797

This book provides an ethnographic contribution to research on children’s consumption, family life and happiness. Various and shifting notions of happiness are explored, as well as conditions for and challenges to happiness, through an analysis of video-recorded interviews and mobile ethnography conducted in two of the most popular theme parks in Sweden. Initially, the study outlines how previous research has conceptualized happiness in association with time and place in a rather static way. Based on a treatise of notions of happiness in philosophy and the social sciences, there is a turn in this thesis towards practice. It generates fundamental knowledge about the complexity of happiness. By employing this approach, it is possible to highlight how happiness is enacted as part of and in relation to ideals of family life, time, childhood, money, consumption, experiences and material things. As we explore the practices of children and their families, we discover that shifting meanings of happiness are located in contemporary culture, where emotions and consumption are of central importance. The approach is interdisciplinary, and draws on theoretical and methodological contributions in sociology, anthropology and Science and Technology Studies (STS). Notions of meshwork and enactment become important for the exploration of happiness as a complex and changing matter, which productively involves social relations and material things. Throughout the thesis there is a dialogue with previous research on happiness, consumption and childhood which highlights the importance of exploring messy practices, in movement. It is argued that explorations of practice contribute to a critical understanding of how happiness and contemporary ideals of childhood can be approached – through consumption and as part of citizenship in a consumer society where happiness is of central importance. Abstract [sv] Denna avhandling utgör ett etnografiskt bidrag till forskning om barns konsumtion, familjeliv och lycka. Genom en analys av videoinspelade intervjuer samt familjebesök till två av Sveriges mest välbesökta temaparker utforskas skiftande betydelser av lycka, liksom dess förutsättningar och utmaningar. Tidigare temaparks-forskning har generellt tagit lyckans existens för given. Utifrån en inledande diskussion om bland annat olika filosofiska och samhällsvetenskapliga lyckoteorier argumenterar avhandlingen för att studier av praktik tillför ny och grundläggande kunskap om lyckans komplexa sammansättningar. Avhandlingen visar därigenom att lycka iscensätts som en del av – och i förhållande till – ideal om familjeliv, tid, barndom, pengar, konsumtion, upplevelser och materiella ting. Genom att fokusera på barn och deras familjers praktiker lokaliseras lyckans skiftande betydelser i en samtidskultur där emotioner och konsumtion är centrala. Avhandlingens ansats är tvärvetenskaplig och hämtar teoretisk och metodologisk inspiration från sociologi, antropologi samt teknik- och vetenskapsstudier (STS). Genom denna ansats synliggörs sammanflätningar av sociala relationer och materiella ting som produktiva i iscensättandet av lycka. Genom en dialog mellan empiriska beskrivningar och forskning om lycka, konsumtion och barndom belyser avhandlingen nödvändigheten av att synliggöra och utforska röriga och rörliga praktiker. Det bidrar till en kritisk förståelse av praktik som kan förändra hur vi närmar oss lycka och samtida barndomsideal – som konsumenter och medborgare i ett lyckosträvande konsumtionssamhälle.

A Stolen Life

A Stolen Life
Author: Jaycee Dugard
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2011-07-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0857207148

A raw and powerful memoir of Jaycee Lee Dugard's own story of being kidnapped as an 11-year-old and held captive for over 18 years On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California. It was the last her family and friends saw of her for over eighteen years. On 26 August 2009, Dugard, her daughters, and Phillip Craig Garrido appeared in the office of her kidnapper's parole officer in California. Their unusual behaviour sparked an investigation that led to the positive identification of Jaycee Lee Dugard, living in a tent behind Garrido's home. During her time in captivity, at the age of fourteen and seventeen, she gave birth to two daughters, both fathered by Garrido. Dugard's memoir is written by the 30-year-old herself and covers the period from the time of her abduction in 1991 up until the present. In her stark, utterly honest and unflinching narrative, Jaycee opens up about what she experienced, including how she feels now, a year after being found. Garrido and his wife Nancy have since pleaded guilty to their crimes.