A funny sinister and thought-provoking comic thriller from the multimillion-copy selling
author of Holes. If you go down to the woods today ... Well every child knows NOT to don't
they? Tamaya is on a scholarship to the prestigious Woodridge Academy and every day she and
seventh-grader Marshall walk to school together. They never go through the woods. When they
arrive at school they stop talking to each other - because Marshall can't be seen to be friends
with a little kid like Tamaya. Especially not with Chad around. Chadthebully who makes
Marshall's life utterly miserable. But today hoping to avoid Chad Marshall and Tamaya decide
to go through the woods ... And what is waiting there for them is strange sinister and
entirely unexpected. The town is about to be turned upside down by the mysterious Fuzzy Mud ...
