Leven Thumps is a series of children's fantasy novels by Obert Skye.
The series, which has five books, deals with an orphaned 14-year-old boy, Leven Thumps, who becomes involved in a battle between good and evil.
[4] Leven Thumps and the Gateway to Foo won the Benjamin Franklin award from the Independent Book Publishers Association in 2006.
Clouds are territorial; buildings walk to the opposite side of the street; and weird bugs are carrying people off.
His mother's half-sister, Addy Graph, reluctantly takes him into her care but allows him to be bullied by her husband, supplying him only with Wonder Wipes T-shirts from her current job.
Leven is a young teen of fourteen living in Oklahoma when he finds Clover the Sycophant under his bed on the porch.
He meets the toothpick and lithen, Geth, who is also the single true heir of Foo and trusts Fate more than anything else.
Leven, Winter, Clover, and Geth attempt to save the whole world from mass chaos.
Not only must Leven race across Foo to stop the whispered secret before the deadly truth is revealed, but he must also travel to the mysterious island of Lith.
There abides the Want, the maniac dream-master who can give Leven the gifts he needs against a foreboding army of rants and other foo beings.
When Leven and Clover get separated from Winter and Geth, their onick takes them to Lith, the island where The Want resides.
Leven starts feeling powerful emotions, because The Want sees every dream that comes in and out of Foo.
The Want takes Leven to a room known as The Den of the Dead, where Antsel comes alive and gets the scoop on how things are in Foo.
Winter and Geth's onick flies them to a random place, where they are captured by Azure, an old defendant of Foo who has turned to Sabine's side.
On the way, Azure tells Geth and Winter that he is destroying them and Leven in exchange for the location and instructions to open the second gateway to Foo.
With his dying breath, The Want reveals that he is in reality the third Want, and Leven's grandfather, Hector Thumps.
Leven, Winter, Geth, and Clover travel towards the gateway through Sycophant Run.
He and Clover shadow-travel to Alder and are set out to get through unfinished business to get to the oldest tree in Foo.
They are extremely honest and are believed to be incorruptible, although throughout the series Geth is the only Lithen who hasn't been corrupted.
Rants are the ungifted offspring of a nit and a cog that were born with too little character to manipulate dreams successfully.
This is an extremely trying experience because the human whose come to Foo not only is completely shocked, but also covered in talking, furry creatures.
The second time, a gang of Avalands attacked and formed together to make a giant rock snake.
It is mentioned in the book that the reason Foo is falling a part is because Phoebe could not keep people longing for good, so they became selfish.
[6] A sequel series, titled Beyond Foo, is a trilogy taking place shortly after Leven Thumps and the Ruins of Alder.
In Foo, the realm that allows humans to hope, imagine, and dream, Geth is one of the strongest and most respected beings, a powerful and wise lithen.
With things in order, Geth and Clover set off to find a new adventure that leads beyond the guarded border of Foo and into an unknown land where dreams have been trapped and freedom has been crushed.
Geth, always a defender of fate and truth, goes on a quest with many life lessons to be learned.
[7] At October 2006 the film company Celtic Rose Entertainment optioned the rights of the series along with distributor 20th Century Fox.
At a book signing in the North Texas area the author stated that he had sold the rights to the film version of the first book 'about a month ago' (from Dec. 2007) and that it was being made by "the people who made the Spider-Man films".
He then went on to state that he is planning a standalone series that follows the story of an older Leven and Winter, which he hopes will bring the excitement level back up for the Leven Thumps series, and possibly get the talks for a movie adaptation going again.