Holes

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER - ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME

Dig deep in this award-winning, modern classic that will remind readers that adventure is right around the corner--or just under your feet!

"A smart jigsaw puzzle of a novel." --New York Times

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.

*Includes a double bonus: an excerpt from Small Steps, the follow-up to Holes, as well as an excerpt from the New York Times bestseller Fuzzy Mud.

Author: Louis Sachar
Publisher: Yearling Books
Published: 05/09/2000
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 7.50h x 5.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780440414803
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.6
Point Value: 7
Interest Level: Middle Grade
Quiz #/Name: 28081 / Holes


Award: Sunshine State Young Reader's Award - Winner
Award: Sunshine State Young Reader's Award - Winner
Award: Young Reader's Choice Award - Winner
Award: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award - Winner
Award: Buckeye Children's Book Award - Winner
Award: Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/15/2000 pg. 119
Booklist 01/01/2001 pg. 978
Entertainment Weekly 11/14/2014 pg. 111

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.