Leven Thumps

""An UnFOOgettable Series""

- Tagline

A series of novels by Obert Skye.

It begins with fourteen-year-old Leven Thumps living a sucking life with his step aunt Addy and her husband Terry Graph in a trailer home at Burnt Culvert, Oklahoma. One day,Clover, a Sycophant, reveals himself. Clover tells Leven that he's been watching over him all his life, usually invisible. He and Leven have got to find the gateway into the world called "Foo" and then destroy that gateway. Foo is Clover's world, the place that makes dreams possible. Humans who get trapped in Foo are called Nits, and one Nit named Sabine has taken over, leading his armies in search of the gateway. If they find the gateway, they'll lead everyone into reality, Foo will empty out and the lack of dreams will destroy humanity. Although Clover's former "burn" (or master) knew all about the gateway and took him through it about fourteen years ago, Clover never got to see it and doesn't know where it is. A Lithen named Geth who knows where the gateway is had been captured and transformed into a seed by Sabine, but Clover knows that his burn got the seed and planted in in reality. Thus Leven and Clover set out to find Geth so that they can enter Foo and destroy the only way out.

There are five books:
 * Leven Thumps And The Gateway To Foo (2005)
 * Leven Thumps And The Whispered Secret (2006)
 * Leven Thumps And The Eyes Of The Want (2007)
 * Leven Thumps And The Wrath Of Ezra (2008)
 * Leven Thumps And The Ruins Of Alder (2009)

Professor Winsnicker's Book of Proper Etiquette for Well-Mannered Sycophants is a side-book that takes place prior to the series.

Beyond Foo is the sequel series, beginning with Geth and the Return of the Lithens.


 * Abusive Parents: Justified with Janet Frore as . Played straight with.
 * Anti-Hero:  after   Heel Face Turn.
 * Anti-Villain: Ezra even though his ultimate goal is to.
 * Badass: Sabine
 * Badass Normal:  who, despite having no gift is strong enough to beat up Leven even though Leven was in his fully powered state.
 * Because Destiny Says So: Geth's personality.
 * Big Bad: Sabine,, Azure, and
 * Big Good: The Want aka  and
 * Blessed with Suck: Rants. Half of them is always what someone is dreaming of and they cannot manipulate dreams. Cue Two-Face jokes.
 * Brick Joke: In book four we find out Leven's favourite number is 11. In book five.
 * Brought Down to Normal:  gift is stolen because Jamoon sucks it out with a machine.
 * Calling the Old Man Out: Inverted.  is happy to see   but.
 * The Chosen One: Leven..
 * Dangerously Genre Savvy:
 * Deadpan Snarker: The narrator and Clover.
 * Demonic Possession:  for the first half of book three.
 * Dinky Drivers: In the first book, Clover commandeers a motor vehicle to catch up to Leven and Winter. He eventually sets up a system to keep the pedals pushed while he hurtles along the street at breakneck pace.
 * Disney Death:.
 * The Dragon: Jamoon to Sabine, Sabine and Azure to.
 * Dragon Ascendant:  becomes the Big Bad after.
 * Eldritch Abomination:.
 * Eleventh-Hour Superpower: When Leven.
 * Evil Uncle: Terry.
 * Exposition Fairy: The purpose of sycophants.
 * Face Heel Turn:.
 * The Film of the Book: Currently with no script or actors.
 * Flight: One of the gifts.
 * Hammerspace: Clover has a pouch called a void that can hold an unlimited amount of stuff.
 * Heel Face Turn:.
 * Heel Face Revolving Door:
 * Heroic Sacrifice: Averted.
 * Hypocritical Humour: The author insults bathroom scenes as the intro to a bathroom scene.
 * Incredible Shrinking Man: One of the gifts.
 * Jerkass: Sometimes Leven, Terry and Ady, /The Want,  . Let's just say all   are like this. Also Janet Frore.
 * Killed Off for Real:
 * Lawyer-Friendly Cameo: From Star Wars. Darth Vader shows up, and at the end of book five.
 * Let's Meet the Meat: Some of Clover's food can talk!
 * Literal Split Personality: Ezra, manifestation of all the hatred and evil in . Also, Janet's whisp.
 * Love Makes You Crazy: Longings cause everyone to go mad with love.
 * Luke, You Are My Father:.
 * The Masquerade: It's revealed at the end of book four that
 * Meaningful Name: Winter,  and   Leven Thumps,.
 * Mind Screw: As Janet puts it in book five
 * Never Trust a Title: In Wrath of Ezra, the titular wrath is when Ezra says he hates  on the last page.
 * Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Leven unleashing.
 * Obviously Evil:
 * Older Than They Look: Winter is.
 * One-Winged Angel:.
 * Only Known by Their Nickname:.
 * Reset Button:
 * Sequel Series: Beyond Foo.
 * Small Name, Big Ego: Albert Welch, who Leven saves in the forest in book two.
 * Superpower Lottery: Upon entering Foo, you are given one of twelve gifts:
 * Flight
 * Fade In And Out
 * See Through Soil
 * Burrow
 * Run Like The Wind
 * Freeze Things
 * Breath Fire
 * See Through Stone
 * Levitate Objects
 * Shrink
 * Throw Lightning
 * Push And Bind Dreams
 * Theme Naming:
 * Those Two Bad Guys: Dennis and Ezra.
 * Weaksauce Weakness: Vacuums for whisps.  for shadows.
 * What Happened to the Mouse?: Leven's reflection in book three.
 * Younger Than They Look: Leven is 14, but after book two, he looks 21.
 * Your Princess Is in Another Castle: At the end of book two it turns out the secret
 * Younger Than They Look: Leven is 14, but after book two, he looks 21.
 * Your Princess Is in Another Castle: At the end of book two it turns out the secret