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Holes / Louis Sachar.

Sachar, Louis, 1954- (author.).

Summary:

Stanley Yelnats's family has a history of bad luck, so he isn't too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys' juvenile detention center, Camp Green Lake. But there is no lake-it has been dry for over a hundred years-and it's hardly a camp: as punishment, the boys must each dig a hole a day, five feet deep, five feet across, in the hard earth of the dried-up lake bed. The warden claims that this pointless labor builds character, but that's a lie. Stanley must try to dig up the truth. In this wonderfully inventive, compelling novel that is both serious and funny, Louis Sachar weaves a narrative puzzle that tangles and untangles, until it becomes clear that the hand of fate has been at work in the lives of the characters-and their forebears-for generations. It is a darkly humorous tale of crime, punishment, and redemption. -- Dust jacket cover.

Record details

ISBN: 0374312648
ISBN: 9780374312640
Physical Description: 265 pages : photographs ; 22 cm
Edition: New edition.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018.
Copyright: ©1998

Content descriptions

General Note:	"20 years in print"--Cover. "Winner of the Newbery and National Book awards"--Cover.
Target Audience Note:	10-14 years 660L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR MG 4.6 7 28081.