In this interesting book by a well-known author, the characters are all students at a small private school surrounded by woods that the children are not allowed to enter. After two boys have a conflict and one tries to avoid the other, Tamaya (the main character) and the boy she walks to school with find themselves in the woods and still run into the troublemaker boy. A fight ensues, and Tamaya inadvertently exposes one of the boys (and herself) to a strange looking puddle of mud. When a strange rash breaks out and gets worse and worse, she realizes she must find the troublemaker and make sure he is alright. She puts her own safety on the line to find him and consistently challenges herself to do the right thing despite what others or the “popular kids” might think. She has values that are worth living out! ~Sara
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 Hilligaschallenges 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 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.
