Skary Childrin and the Carousel of Sorrow by Katy Towell

In Widowsbury, an isolated village where people believe "known is good, new is bad," three outcasts from the girls' school join forces with a home-schooled boy to uncover and combat the evil that is making people disappear.

I loved, loved this book. I will put this into the hands of many readers at the library. It is smart, cool, and just peculiar enough to to reach those hard to reach readers!
It reminded me a touch of Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Recommended for lovers of The Series of Unfortunate Events, and Mary Rose Wood's stories.
Here's hoping for many more titles from Towell, and I love the illustrations as well!

I got this book in my first book haul this year, at a library sale. It's a interesting, quick read. It might not be as quickly a read for others, but I read it in a few hours.

I didn't like it as much as I'd hoped I would, but that's because it didn't appeal to me a whole lot I guess. I'd suggest giving it a try, just see if you would like it or not. At least then, you gave it a chance.