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Scareground Paperback – August 6, 2024
Uncover a world of dark magic, forbidden adventures and family secrets when a spooky fairground returns to Victorian London.
Adopted by a family of bakers, 12-year-old orphan Nancy Crumpet's life is a delightful mix of flour, salt, and love, yet her mind is brimming with questions no one can answer. Where are her birth parents? Why must she keep her mysterious birthmark hidden? And why are all the adults terrified of the fairground?
Faced with an opportunity to enter the Scareground, Nancy and her best friend discover a place of dark magic, where rides come to life and there's a mystery around every corner. When she meets the fair's sinister owner, Skelter, Nancy faces secrets more horrifying than she could ever have imagined.
- Reading age8 - 12 years
- Print length354 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- Grade level4 - 6
- Dimensions5.1 x 1.1 x 7.7 inches
- PublisherNeem Tree Press
- Publication dateAugust 6, 2024
- ISBN-101915584620
- ISBN-13978-1915584625
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"Scareground reads like a Tim Burton movie with a Willy Wonka twist. Perfect for a creepy scare on a dark winters night."—Helena Duggan, author of the A Place Called Perfect and The Light Thieves series
"Lavishly-written, richly-plotted, and topped off with a generous dusting of delicious terror"—Sinéad O'Hart, author of The Eye of the North and The Silver Road
"Spook-tacular fun! Perfect for fans of dark but fun adventures."—Emma Finlayson-Palmer, author of the Autumn Moonbeam series
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, UK with her family.
Product details
- Publisher : Neem Tree Press (August 6, 2024)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 354 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1915584620
- ISBN-13 : 978-1915584625
- Reading age : 8 - 12 years
- Grade level : 4 - 6
- Item Weight : 12.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.1 x 1.1 x 7.7 inches
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About the author
Angela has written extensively for the Oxford Reading Tree Programme (mostly for the award-winning Readerful series). Scareground, her debut middle-grade novel was published in 2023 with Neem Tree Press. This spooky adventure was most recently longlisted for the Historical Association's Young Quills Award ( Best Historical Fiction for Children).
She lives in Oxford with her family where she is currently working on her new middle-grade adventure 'Elliott Wonderful and the Rise of the Statues' (July 2025).
Please note: TRAIN (YA) will now be published with Neem Tree Press in 2026.
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When 12-yr-old Nancy was a baby she was adopted by the Crumpets. They are bakers and they live above their bakery. Nancy loves them, but wonders where she came from, who her parents are, and why the Sky talks to her. When the Scareground returns to Greenwich, Nancy pieces together a bunch of clues and decides she needs to go to it even if the Crumpets have forbidden it. With her best friend, Arthur Green, at her side, she can do anything. But is the Scareground going to prove their undoing?
Ooooh! Spooky, mysterious, and just a bit dangerous makes this a perfect tale for a reader with a sense of adventure, whimsy, and imagination. Nancy and Arthur are great characters inhabiting a creative world I’m glad I entered. I love that Nancy talks with the Sky and the Sky “talks” back. That Arthur is smart and supportive yet has things he is dealing with though that doesn’t stop him from enjoying time with his best friend. The kids could be obnoxious in their actions, but they aren’t.
Scareground leans toward horror without actually being horrifying and in trying to find her origins, Nancy learns more than she bargained for, but that’s what makes this a compelling read. Live, learn, and grow. We should all take a page from Nancy’s book.
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I really hope there will be a second book so I can see what more adventures Nancy will get up to!