Fuzzy Mud
Random House Children's Books · Paperback · March 21, 2017
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!
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- Who it’s for
- A tense detour blends friendship, family, science mishaps, and an unexpectedly strange discovery.
- Themes
- Friendship and family, Science and its consequences
- Genres
- Sci-Fi, Friendship, Bullying
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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.
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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 we’ll 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 SELECTION A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “The 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 Times “Holds as much suspense as fuel for discussion.” —Booklist, Starred
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A tense detour blends friendship, family, science mishaps, and an unexpectedly strange discovery.
Come here for
- Suspense sparked by a shortcut gone wrong
- Friendship tested by trouble bigger than expected
Expect
- A story that links science mishaps with larger stakes
- A curious role for fuzzy mud
Where it sits
| Sci-Fi | 82% |
|---|---|
| Bullying | 50% |
| Friendship | 39% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Mysteries & Detective Stories
- Environment & Conservation
- Bullying
- Authors
- Louis Sachar
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Published
- March 21, 2017
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- Friendship and family · Science and its consequences
- Reading lane
- Mysteries & Detective Stories