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Holes

Louis Sachar

1999233 pagesabout 4–5 hours
1999
first published
  • 1999Thorndike Press · 288 pages · ENGISBN 9780786221868
  • 2000Scholastic · 233 pages · ENGISBN 9780439253222
  • 2000Dell Yearling · 233 pages · ENGISBN 9780440414803
  • 2000Scholastic · 233 pages · ENGISBN 9780439244190
  • 2007Bloomsbury · 233 pages · ENGISBN 9780747589990
  • 2001Laurel Leaf · 272 pages · ENGISBN 9780440228592
  • 2003Yearling · 256 pages · ENGISBN 9780440419464
  • 2001Tandem Library · 233 pages · ENGISBN 9780613236690

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. 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 that Camp Green Lake isn't what it seems. Are the boys digging holes because the warden is looking for something? But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? It's up to Stanley to dig up the truth.

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