Today is Childtastic’s turn on the Scareground blog tour!
With spooky season just round the corner, Neem Tree Press has published a scary middle-grade title to delight readers looking for chills and thrills as the nights grow longer.
Flame-haired and feisty Nancy Crumpet has a loving and lovely life with her adoptive parents in their delicious-smelling home above their bakery. Yet she has so many questions: why did her birth parents disappear? What is the strange birthmark on her wrist of a silver horse – and why must she keep it hidden? Why can she – and no one else – talk to the sky?
When Skelter Tombola’s terrifying Scareground returns to Greenwich 12 years after its last appearance (and a fatal tragedy), Nancy believes the answers to these questions – and more – lie at the fair, especially when fearful Ma and Pa Crumpet forbid her to go. She and best friend Arthur sneak off to investigate … and find themselves more terrified than they could have possibly imagined.
Angela Kecojevic’s magical world contrasts Nancy’s warm, loving, sugar-coated home life, and the slug-ridden, creepy coldness of the fair and teases the reader with illusions and scares galore.
Scareground is – literally! – a delicious thriller.
Thank you to Neem Tree Press and The Write Reads for an ARC of this book.
