Working at an amusement park isn’t all fun and games.

In author Veronica Bane’s debut YA novel, “Difficult Girls,” Greta Riley Green finds out there’s something sinister going on at her seemingly innocent summer gig at Hyper Kid Magic Land.

Bane, who hails from San Diego and now lives in Los Angeles, spent her formative years employed at a Southern California theme park. She loosely based the book and its cast of characters on her own real-life experiences and interactions.

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Bane said working in the entertainment department of a theme park, which she doesn’t name, felt glamorous. “It was basically Hollywood,” she says.

“I got to watch these incredible performers, and they were all so tal

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