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."