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....

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.

In a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, 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.

Introduces June Bailey, a wildly imaginative girl, and her talking animal friends who work together to save the amusement park from June's dreams from forces that threaten to destroy it.

Elliot the little elephant is terrified when his friend Mouse introduces him to the carnival, but Mouse helps him to have fun.

Papa Bear is excited about the family's trip to an amusement park, but with so many things to do he starts to worry that they may not make it to his ride before the park closes.

When her happily-ever-after life with boyfriend Jake falls apart, college student Alyssa, who works as Cinderella at a theme park during the summer, must pull herself back together and prove she is more than just a pretty princess.

Heidi takes a trip with her best friend Lucy Lancaster to the Wacky Wonders Adventure Park where there are water slides, wild rides, and plenty of friendship drama between Heidi and Lucy.

Louis is totally bored by the family's road trip with his younger sister, and the tacky tourist places they stop at, but when his sister climbs out the window of the motel at the worn-down Prehistoric Action Park he goes out to search, and suddenly the dinosaur statues seem a lot more scary--and strangely mobile.