Holes

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This groundbreaking classic is now available in a special anniversary edition with bonus content. Winner of the Newbery Medal as well as the National Book Award, HOLES is a New York Times bestseller and one of the strongest-selling middle-grade books to ever hit shelves!

Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.

It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment
—and redemption.

Special anniversary edition bonus content includes: A New Note From the Author!; "Ten Things You May Not Know About HOLES" by Louis Sachar; and more!

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4.6
1.22K reviews
Kayla G
December 3, 2023
I love the reviews on this book. I only saw the movie but I like how the people under this post gave good imagery so now if I'm able to buy the book I'm sure it'll be money's worth.
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Tiffany Grisham
June 8, 2014
This is an excellent book! Its about a young man named Stanley Yelnats and his family has a curse. But one day he missed the bus so he had to walk to school and he was walking under a bridge like thing and shoes randomly fell out of the sky on to Stanley's head. But the shoes were stolen. So Stanley started to run and the cops thought he stole the shoes but he didnt.So then he went to court but he got a choice to go to jail or Camp Green Lake he chose Camp Green Lake.You can find out what happens next!
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A Google user
March 29, 2012
The book holes is the book i choose to tell you about.I read the book holes in sixth grade.I walked into class and there were books on everyones desk.My teacher said this is the book we are going to read.Then he said that the book will only take us two weeks to read.And after the book we are going to wathch the movie. The book holes started like this.stanley was comeing home from school.On his way home he walked under a bridge. When he got to the other side some shoes fell from the sky.They were some famous baseball players shoe.When he picked them up he took off running home but befor he got home he got stoped by the cops.yje cops asked him why was he running.Stanley told them he was going home .The cops told Stanley that the shoes he had in his hands were stolen.Then he had to go to camp green lake. The book Holes is a good book.It does not take long to read.I liked the book.Most books i dislikebut not that one.The book is funny and interesting.I recomend this book to anybody cause the book interesting and makes you want to keep turning the page.
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About the author

Louis Sachar is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Holes, which won the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Christopher Award, as well as Stanley Yelnats' Survival to Camp Green Lake; Small Steps, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award; and The Cardturner, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Parents' Choice Gold Award recipient, and an ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book. His books for younger readers include There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, The Boy Who Lost His Face, Dogs Don't Tell Jokes, and the Marvin Redpost series, among many others.

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