This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Text copyright © 2015 by Louis Sachar

Cover art copyright © 2015 by Jeff Nentrup

Map copyright © 2015 by Jeffery Mathison

Holes excerpt copyright © 1998 by Louis Sachar

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Sachar, Louis.

Fuzzy mud / Louis Sachar.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-385-74378-5 (trade hardcover) —

ISBN 978-0-375-99129-5 (library binding) — ISBN 978-0-385-37021-9 (ebook)

[1. Diseases—Fiction. 2. Schools—Fiction.] I. Title.

PZ7.S1185Fu 2015

[Fic]—dc23

2014025074

eBook ISBN: 9780385370219

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