Fright Fair

Nadia Corazon Velez is already having a bad year. Sixth grade is miserable, her brothers are overprotective, and somebody keeps leaving strange carnival tickets where they should not exist. Inside library books. Beneath her pillow. Wedged inside her locker door. Each ticket carries the same message. FRIGHT FAIR. ONE NIGHT ONLY. Then Nadia finds a golden ticket embossed with her full name. That night, the carnival appears. Hidden beyond the edge of town beneath flickering lights and rotting striped tents, the Fright Fair looks like every impossible childhood dream stitched together into one glowing midway of rides, games, prizes, and music echoing through the dark. But the Fair has rules. Every ride must be ridden. Every game must be played. No one leaves until their ticket is stamped COMPLETE. At first, the Fair feels almost fun. Weird fun. The kind of fun that makes your stomach hurt a little. Then children begin changing. A boy with too many teeth smiles at her from across the midway. Carnival prizes look disturbingly familiar. And the deeper Nadia travels into the Fair, the more she realizes the games are not taking prizes. They are taking pieces of people. The Fright Fair does not steal. It collects. And once the Fair decides something belongs to it, getting it back may cost more than Nadia has left to lose. Perfect for fans of Goosebumps, Coraline, and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Fright Fair: The Ticket You Cannot Return is a haunting middle-grade nightmare packed with eerie carnival horror, creepy rules, dark humor, and unforgettable twists.