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Scareground by Angela Kecojevic
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Book Info
Genre: MIddle Grade, Spooky mystery
Length: 304 Pages
Published: 7th September 2023 (6th August US)
Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Scareground-Angela-Kecojevic/dp/1915584213

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?

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 Review Overall a thoroughly enjoyable story, I think perhaps I’m a little old for it, so I wanted more. I loved the characters and the premise of the book, but it felt young to me. I’d definitely recommend this for the appropriate age range. I loved the aspect of Nancy being found as a baby and feeling different,  as an adopted child myself I definitely felt like that in my youth. 

I did love the Crumpets relationship with her, and with Arthur too, supportive, loving and kind. Mischievous and adventurous they face their fears of the fairground, but unsure why the adults are so scared of it. And I never understood how she speaks to the sky, and what is the horse mark she has to hide?

Maybe a following book will add more background and flesh out what we have so far.