Blog Tour: Scareground – Angela Kecojevic

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

Twelve-year-old Nancy Crumpet lives above a bakery and her life is a delightful mix of flour, salt, and love. 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. Nancy and her best friend Arthur Green meet the fair’s spooky owner, Skelter, and discover a world full of dark magic and mystery. Nancy must confront her greatest fears to get to the truth. But is she ready for all the secrets the Scareground will reveal?

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About the Author

Angela Kecojevic is a senior librarian, author and creative writing tutor. She has written for the Oxford Reading Tree programme and the multi-award-winning adventure park Hobbledown where her characters can be seen walking around, something she still finds incredibly charming! She is a member of the Climate Writers Fiction League, a group of international authors who use climate issues in their work. Angela lives in the city of Oxford with her family.

My thoughts: this was a really enjoyable read about family, finding your place and friendship. Nancy lives with her adoptive parents, the Crumpets, bakers in Greenwich. But she wants to find out who her birth parents were and why she can read the sky. Assisted by her best friend, future explorer Arthur, she sneaks out to explore the new fun fair in town, the Scareground, a place the Crumpets have warned her not to visit.

There she meets several new friends, and the mysterious Skelter Tombola. Sneaking around the fairground, Nancy learns a few terrifying secrets, and resolves to return for more answers. What is her connection to the Tombola family and why is Skelter trying to find the lost carousel?

A fun and slightly sinister story starts off a hopefully new series for young readers of 9-12 years old (and this thirtysomething!)

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.