Books with title Holes

This winner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award features Stanley Yelnats, a kid who 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 Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake: the warden is looking for something. Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption..

Check out the Holes tour with Louis Sachar!Monday, October 20th, 7: 00 p.m. Anderson's Bookshop, Naperville, ILTuesday, October 21st, 7: 00 p.m., Barnes & Noble, Skokie, ILWednesday, October 22nd, 7: 00 p.m., Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop, Brookfield, WIThursday, October 23rd, 7: 00 p.m., Red Balloon Bookshop, St. Paul, MNFriday, October 24th, 7: 00 p.m. Wayzata Community Church, Wayzata, MNMonday, October 27th, 7: 00 p.m., Tattered Cover Bookstore, Highlands Ranch, COTuesday, Oc 28th, 7: 00 p.m., Borders, Aurora, CO Stanley Yelnats tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment-and redemption.

A darkly humorous tale of crime and punishmentStanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck, so he isn't too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys' juvenile detention center, Camp Green Lake. There is no lake - it has been dry for over a hundred years - and it's hardly a camp. As punishment, the boys must each dig a hole a day, five feet deep, five feet across, in the hard earth of the dried-up lake bed. The warden claims that this pointless labor builds character, but she is really using the boys to dig for loot buried by the Wild West outlaw Kissin' Kate Barlow. The story of Kissin' Kate, and of a curse put on Stanley's great-great-grandfather by a one-legged gypsy, weaves a narrative puzzle that tangles and untangles, until it becomes clear that the hand of fate has been at work in the lives of the characters - and their forebears - for generations.With this wonderfully inventive, compelling novel that is both serious and funny, Louis Sachar has written his best book to date. Holes is a 1998 New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year and the winner of the 1998 National Book Award for Young People's Literature, the 1999 Boston Globe - Horn Book Award for Fiction and the 1999 Newbery Medal.

Factory Sealed - Shrink Wrapped LOUIS SACHAR: Holes, A Signed Edition The #1 New York Times Best Seller, personally signed by Louis Sachar... Stanley Yelnats, a boy cursed with life-long bad luck has ended up at Camp Green Lake, where he realizes that this detention center is not what it seems. Winner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award, this modern classic is personally signed by award-winning author Louis Sachar. 5 1/2” x 8 1/2", 266pp

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 Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. 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. Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption.