Review (USA) Scareground

Updated: Aug 15

USA Release 2024

by Angela Kecojevic 🎠 Cover Design by Anna Morrison💀

Published by Neem Tree Press 🎡

Roll up, roll up, the Scareground is in town!

Do you have your Scareground ticket? 🎟️🎠

We looked forward to this book SO much in the UK & now I'm excited to be part of the USA release!!

Twelve-year-old Nancy Crumpet lives above a bakery & life is sweet.

*Yet her mind is brimming with questions no one can answer: Why did her birth parents disappear?

Why can she speak with the sky? And why must she keep her mysterious birthmark hidden?

Everything is about to change when the Scareground returns to Greenwich. Nancy is convinced it holds the answers to her parents' disappearance*

With her best friend Arthur Green, Nancy meets the fair's spooky owner, Skelter and they discover a world full of dark magic and mystery.

There's a double mystery here - Nancy's curiosity about her parents & the strange resistance to anyone ever mentioning the Fairground even in a whisper.

Help yourself to some popcorn🍿🍿🍿but remember, this is not your average fair!

The original Oxford launch event really captured the fairground Scareground vibe! Candy Floss/Cotton Candy, Popcorn, a Magician, Music & Balloons all set the scene.

The ideas of sharing messages on the rooftops, planning mini investigations & trying to solve such secretive puzzles all blend so well to create this superb story. There's so much more too! The attention to detail is clever without being too busy.