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by Louis Sachar Publisher: DELL CHILDRENS INTL

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A mystery beneath the dry lake

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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Newbery Medal winner

    The metadata states that Holes won the Newbery Medal.

  • Bestseller

    New York Times bestseller

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AlbakiReads Editorial

A mystery beneath the dry lake

At Camp Green Lake, digging is presented as a way to build character—but the boys’ repeated labor has another purpose. Stanley Yelnats, sent there unjustly, begins to question what the warden hopes to find beneath the ground. The story links this camp mystery with a family curse said to stretch across generations, bringing together questions of justice, punishment, and redemption. Friendship is also part of the book’s subject matter, while the dry lake and its many holes give the central mystery a clear, unusual setting. This anniversary edition includes additional material, including a note from Sachar and a list of things readers may not know about the book.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Middle-grade readers interested in mysteries set in unusual places.
  • Readers who enjoy stories about friendship, injustice, and family legacies.
  • Young readers looking for fiction that combines humor with questions of crime and punishment.

Themes

FriendshipJustice and punishmentFamily legacyMysteryRedemption

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Book overview

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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