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Stanley Yelnats was given a choice. The judge said, ‘You may go to jail, or you may go to Camp Green Lake.’ Stanley was from a poor family. He had never been to camp before.
Stanley Yelnats’ family has always had bad luck; the fault of a gypsy curse put on his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather. So when he’s found guilty of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to a boot camp in the desert, Stanley isn’t surprised. The evil warden of the camp, who wears poisoned red nail-polish and prowling snake-skin boots, claims that digging a hole each day is the way to turn a bad boy into a good boy. So every day, Stanley must toil in the blazing sun and dig his own hole. But is that all there is to it – or must Stanley dig up the truth? Written in a fresh, surreal voice and set in a boiling desert landscape, this sweeping, cinematic book is impossible to forget.
Winner of the Newbery Medal.
“The most moving, exciting, thrilling book I’d read in a long, long time. I loved it.” Malorie Blackman
Recent reviews
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This book is really good.
4 August 2010
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Holes is an amazing book and will keep you gripped and entertained. I thourghly recomend it.
7 July 2010
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it is a really good i loved it.one of my favourite books!!
26 June 2010
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Holes is a brilliant story of a young boy Stanley who goes on an adventure in a desert that he will never forget. It is an amzing read for anyone aged about 10-16. x
11 June 2010
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Holes is a really well written book. It is all about a boy called Stanley who has supposedly commited a crime and is sent to a sort of camp to reform him. He has to dig holes every day. Alongside this side of the tale is the tale of one of his long dead relations and as the story unfolds the two mysteriously link together… I LOVED this book and would suggest it to boys and girls aged 8-15.
16 May 2010
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Authors
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Louis Sachar
Louis Sachar is an award-winning author of over twenty-one books for children, including the bestselling Holes.
Awards
Louis has won many awards including the 1999 Newbery and Caldecott awards – the most prestigious American awards in children’s literature for Holes.
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