Now published in paperback, this is a funny, sinister and thought-provoking comic thriller from the multimillion-copy-selling author of }Holes{. Hoping to avoid their bully, Chad, scholarship student Tamaya and seventh-grader Marshall walk to school through the woods... and what is waiting there for them is strange, sinister and entirely unexpected. The next day, Chad doesn't turn up at school, and the two unlikely heroes set out to rescue their bully. The town is about to be turned upside down by the Fuzzy Mud... Ages: 9+.