Stanley\'s been unjustly sent to a boys\' detention center where the warden makes the boys build character by digging holes. -- The New York Times WINNER OF THE BOSTON GLOBE-HORN BOOK AWARD A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE CHILDREN\'S BOOK SELECTED FOR NUMEROUS BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR AND ALA HONORS.
A smart jigsaw puzzle of a novel.
Includes a double bonus: an excerpt from Small Steps, the follow-up to Holes, as well as an excerpt from Louis Sachar\'s new middle-grade novel, Fuzzy Mud.
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.
The boys are digging Holes because the warden is looking for something.
It doesn\'t take long for Stanley to realize there\'s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake.
But there are an awful lot of holes.
There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
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.
A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses.
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse.
But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Winner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award This #1 New York Times bestselling, modern classic in which boys are forced to dig Holes day in and day out is now available with a splashy new look.
Stanley realizes the boys are digging Holes because the warden is looking for something.
Stanley\'s been unjustly sent to a boys\' detention center where the warden makes the boys build character by digging holes