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Holes
Louis Sachar

Holes

Yearling (Mar 11, 2003)
9780440419464
| Paperback
256 pages | 130 x 194 mm | English

Genre

  • General Fiction
  • Kids (12 & Under)
  • Kids: Middle Grade

Subject

  • Friendship
  • Friendship/ Fiction
  • Homeless Persons
  • Homeless Persons/ Fiction
  • Juvenile Delinquency/ Fiction

Plot

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 Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. 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. Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment--and redemption.