Fuzzy Mud

ISBN: 0385370229

Author: Sachar, Louis

Condition: New

From Louis Sachar, the multi-award-winning author of Holes, comes the New York Times bestseller that's been nominated for 13 state awards and counting!They got lost.The world got scared.And the mud got fuzzy.Fifth grader Tamaya Dhilwaddi and seventh grader Marshall Walsh have been walking to and from Woodridge Academy together since elementary school. But their routine is disrupted when bully Chad Hilligas challenges Marshall to a fight.To avoid the conflict, Marshall takes a shortcut home through the off-limits woods. Tamaya, unaware of the reason for the detour, reluctantly follows. They soon get lost. And then they find trouble. Bigger trouble than anyone could ever have imagined. What they uncover might affect the future of the world.FUZZY MUD is an imaginative and suspenseful story of the great lengths well go to for friendship and family, the mishaps and breakthroughs that are made in the name of science, and the wonders of mud . . . fuzzy mud.A JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTIONA FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEARThe children are well-realized characters and agents within their immediate social worlds . . . [and] the very fate of the world is at stake. -The New York TimesHolds as much suspense as fuel for discussion. -Booklist, Starred