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ZIN Product Number: 10115729
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 240 pages
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0440414806
Release Date: Jan 3, 2001
Age Range: 9 to 12
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 5 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune, which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish boys' juvenile detention center in the Texas desert. As punishment, the boys here must each dig a hole every day, five feet deep and five feet across. Ultimately, Stanley "digs up the truth" -- and through his experience, finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. Winner of the 1998 National Book Award for young people's literature, here is a wildly inventive, darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment -- and redemption.
| | | | From The Publisher
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.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 5 Average Rating:
Most Recommended
-- A reviewer, August 12, 2002
Also Recommended: Fever 1793
'Can't put the book down!'
-- Amanda, a soccer player, September 3, 2002
Also Recommended: The story The Pigman was very a touching and wonderful book.I recommend it for Jr. High and above.
Fantastic
-- Cara, a high school freshman, July 22, 2002
Also Recommended: The Coldest Winter Ever, Flyy Girl, Sister, Sister, Liar's Game, Cheaters
SwEeT!!!!!!!!
-- chloe, 16 cali, guy crazy, July 31, 2002
Also Recommended: p.s. longer letter later
Holes
-- Vivian Harris, July 25, 2002
| |  | | | Accreditation
Louis Sachar is the popular author of Dogs Don't Tell Jokes, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, and the Marvin Redpost series, among many others. He lives in Austin, Texas.
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