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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. And 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. Chad-the-bully, 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 next day, Chad doesn t turn up at school – no one knows where he is, not even his family. And Tamaya s arm is covered in a horribly, burning, itchy wound. As two unlikely heroes set out to rescue their bully, the town is about to be turned upside down by the mysterious Fuzzy Mud …

A funny, sinister and thought-provoking comic thriller from the multimillion-copy selling author of Holes and There s a Boy in the Girls Bathroom.