Bestseller Alan Brennert's spellbinding story about a familyaof dreamers and their lives withinathe legendary Palisades Amusement ParkaGrowing up in the 1930s, there is no more magical place than Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey-especially for seven-year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mother by insisting on the unladylike nickname Toni,aand her brother, Jack. Toni helps her parents, Eddie and Adele Stopka, at the stand where they sell homemade French fries amid the roar of the Cyclone roller coaster. There is also the lure of the world's biggest salt-water pool, complete withadivers whoseaastonishing stunts inspire Toni, despite her mother's insistence that girls can't be high divers. But a family of dreamers doesn't always share the same dreams, and then the world intrudes:aThere's the Great Depression, and Pearl Harbor, which hits home in ways thatawill split the family apart; andaperils like fire and race riotsain the park.aBoth Eddie andaJack face the dangers ofawar, whileaAdele hasaambitions of