6/21/2023 0 Comments Fuzzy mud by louis sacharShe's this very quiet girl who just wants to do good, please the teachers. If it's a girl main character especially, they're sassy and spunky, and she is the opposite. On Tamaya's character, and how she defies stereotypes of girls in kid's books Perry Hagopian/Courtesy of Random House Books Louis Sachar is also the author of Holes and the "Sideways Stories From Wayside School" series. Then Tamaya and a friend discover a more sinister mystery - a strange substance in the woods near their school. They call her a goody goody and a goody two-shoes, and she's not sure what happened." "Now suddenly her friends are no longer acting like that. "Up until fifth grade, she and her friends all just tried to please the teacher and do their homework," Sachar tells NPR's Arun Rath. 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. So if he says kids will love a scary eco-bioterror-mystery-thriller-comedy, you just might trust him. It's mysterious and creepy, and it's still flying off the shelves. His 1999 Newbery Medal winner, Holes, centers on a boy wrongly confined to a juvenile detention facility. His first book, Sideways Stories From Wayside School, came out in 1978 - and the wacky collection is still in print. Louis Sachar knows a few things about writing for kids. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Fuzzy Mud Author Louis Sachar
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