Holes: (Newbery Medal Winner; National Book Award Winner)

Holes: (Newbery Medal Winner; National Book Award Winner)

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<p><b>20 Years in Print</b><br><b></b><br><b>Winner of the National Book Award </b></p><p><b>“Dazzling” ―<i>Publishers Weekly</i>, starred review</b><br><b>“Heartrending” ―<i>The Horn Book, </i>starred review</b><br><b>“Brilliant” ―<i>School Library Journal, </i>starred review</b><br><b>“Engrossing” ―<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br><b>“A joyful, eerie tour de force” ―<i>The Boston Sunday Globe</i></b><br><b>“Wildly inventive” ―<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b></p><br><p>Stanley Yelnats’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. But 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 that’s a lie. Stanley must try to dig up the truth.</p><p> In this wonderfully inventive, compelling novel that is both serious and funny, Louis Sachar 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. It is a darkly humorous tale of crime, punishment, and redemption.</p>