BOOKS
Created: 2nd October, 2015

Fuzzy Mud

Author: Louis Sachar
Publisher: Bloomsbury

This is a thrilling adventure story with peril, triumph and excitement.  As with all Louis Sachar’s books this is hard to put down and his easy, engaging prose means that this is destined to become one of those “torch under the blanket” books!

It’s the story of school children who are negotiating school life, friendships, families and growing up – and the characters have been created with Sachar’s inimitable style and wit. The star of the book though is the ‘fuzzy mud’ – an ecological disaster whose progress and destruction is described so cleverly through flashbacks to State Committee inquiries and flash-forwards to disaster hearings, through newspaper and media reports and through an increasingly malevolent series of sums.