His new book for young readers, Fuzzy Mud, centers on Tamaya Dhilwaddi, a good, quiet kid just trying to navigate the mysteries of middle school. "Up until fifth grade, she and her friends all ...

who challenges him to an after-school fight. Rather than suffer a beating, he and Tamaya take a shortcut through the off-limits woods and come across what Tamaya dubs “fuzzy mud,” a strange ...

The Newbery Medal-winning author of Holes is digging into something different with Fuzzy Mud. Using a couple of middle-school kids as protagonists, he leads readers into the woods for a horror ...