Holes
Paperback – Audiobook, May 9, 2000
Random House Children's Books · Paperback · May 9, 2000
This groundbreaking classic is now available in a special anniversary edition with bonus content.
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- Who it’s for
- Layered, easy-to-enter reading with a keepsake feel.
- Themes
- curse, justice, redemption
- Pacing
- Mixed
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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.
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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! .
Why It Clicks
Layered, easy-to-enter reading with a keepsake feel.
Come here for
- Layered, easy-to-enter reading
- A keepsake-friendly copy on the shelf
Expect
- Bullying and safety themes
- Runaway-story tension
Where it sits
| Action & Adventure | 74% |
|---|---|
| Mysteries & Detective Stories | 64% |
| The Classics | 28% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Action & Adventure
- Mysteries & Detective Stories
- Friendship
- Authors
- Louis Sachar
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Published
- May 9, 2000
- Format
- Paperback
- Theme
- curse · justice · redemption
- Reading lane
- Action & Adventure