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Archie McBudge was planning a sweet summer at Honeystone Hall. But now the Wyrdie Tree, source of all the magic in the town of Dundoodle, is dying, and the guardian must save it. With enemies on every side, puzzles to solve and secrets to uncover - not to mention a very scary dentist to avoid - Archie's summer's looking more like a super-sour sherbet lemon with exploding bits that make your mouth go numb for a week!  

Gafferty Sprout is a Smidgen. A Smidgen looks like a human, sounds like a human, and loves chips with curry sauce like a human, if humans were three inches tall. Generations ago there were lots of them, living in a maze of tunnels beneath the human village of Dundoodle. But then something happened and they just disappeared.

Archie McBudge knows his lucky underpants really work, because when he and his mum go to the remote Scottish village of Dundoodle, they find he's inherited the world-famous McBudge Confectionery Company from Great-Uncle Archibald. That's a lifetime's supply of treats! But all is not well in Dundoodle, and when Archie reads the mysterious letter his great-uncle left him he finds himself on a quest to save his family's company from ruin.

Meet the amazing monster customers and sample the foul-food served up daily at Fuzzby's diner - the brilliant setting for this innovative series from debut author David O'Connell. Somewhere in suburbia, or maybe smack-bang in the middle of your city, there is a very special diner. What's so special about it? Well, it does the best chips anywhere, but also its customers are a little bit 'unusual'… some people say they are monsters…

Years ago, the Fjurge Brownies fled, pursued by a stone giant, bearing the seedling of the Wyrdie Tree in Dundoodle. When he hears that the brownies lost their magical Book of Earth in the process, Archie McBudge is determined to find it for them. Only trouble is, the book was locked in a tunnel - the key to which was broken into four pieces. Archie, Fliss and Billy set out to find the pieces of the key, but why was the tunnel sealed off in the first place? And what is the deep, sinister, mountainous voice Archie keeps hearing on the wind?