Holes by Louis Sachar (English) Paperback Book

Description: Holes by Louis Sachar As further evidence of his familys bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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. 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 doesnt take long for Stanley to realize theres 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! . Back Cover 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 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 doesnt take long for Stanley to realize theres 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. Author Biography Louis Sachar is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Holes, which won the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Christopher Award, as well as Stanley Yelnats Survival to Camp Green Lake; Small Steps, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award; and The Cardturner, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Parents Choice Gold Award recipient, and an ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book. His books for younger readers include Theres a Boy in the Girls Bathroom, The Boy Who Lost His Face, Dogs Dont Tell Jokes, and the Marvin Redpost series, among many others. Review Winner of the Newbery Medal Winner of the National Book Award #1 New York Times Bestseller A New York Public Librarys 100 Great Childrens Books 100 Years Selection "A dazzling blend of social commentary, tall tale and magic realism." —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review "There is no question, kids will love Holes." —School Library Journal, Starred Review "[A] rugged, engrossing adventure." —Kirkus Reviews "This delightfully clever story is well-crafted and thought-provoking." —VOYA "[Sachar] comes fully, brilliantly into his own voice. This is a cant-put-it-down read." —The Bulletin Review Quote A New York Public Librarys 100 Great Childrens Books 100 Years selection "A dazzling blend of social commentary, tall tale and magic realism." --Publishers Weekly, Starred "There is no question, kids will love Holes."--School Library Journal, Starred Excerpt from Book Stanley Yelnats was the only passenger on the bus, not counting the driver or the guard. The guard sat next to the driver with his seat turned around facing Stanley. A rifle lay across his lap. Stanley was sitting about ten rows back, handcuffed to his armrest. His backpack lay on the seat next to him. It contained his toothbrush, toothpaste, and a box of stationary his mother had given him. Hed promised to write to her at least once a week. He looked out the window, although there wasnt much to see--mostly fields of hay and cotton. He was on a long bus ride to nowhere. The bus wasnt air-conditioned, and the hot heavy air was almost as stifling as the handcuffs. Stanley and his parents had tried to pretend that he was just going away to camp for a while, just like rich kids do. When Stanley was younger he used to play with stuffed animals, and pretend the animals were at camp. Camp Fun and Games he called it. Sometimes hed have them play soccer with a marble. Other times theyd run an obstacle course, or go bungee jumping off a table, tied to broken rubber bands. Now Stanley tried to pretend he was going to Camp Fun and Games. Maybe he d make some friends, he thought. At least hed get to swim in the lake. He didn t have any friends at home. He was overweight and the kids at his middle school often teased him about his size. Even his teachers sometimes made cruel comments without realizing it. On his last day of school, his math teacher, Mrs. Bell, taught ratios. As an example, she chose the heaviest kid in the class and the lightest kid in the class, and had them weigh themselves. Stanley weighed three times as much as the other boy. Mrs. Bell wrote the ratio on the board, 3:1, unaware of how much embarrassment she had caused both of them. Stanley was arrested later that day. He looked at the guard who sat slumped in his seat and wondered of he had fallen asleep. The guard was wearing sunglasses, so Stanley couldnt see his eyes. Stanley was not a bad kid. He was innocent of the crime for which he was convicted. Hed just been in the wrong place at the wrong time. It was all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather! He smiled. It was a family joke. Whenever anything went wrong, they always blamed Stanleys no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather! Supposedly, he had a great-great-grandfather who had stolen a pig from one-legged Gypsy, and she put a curse on him and all his descendants. Stanley and his parents didnt believe in curses, of course, but whenever anything went wrong, it felt good to be able to blame someone. Things went wrong a lot. They always seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. He looked out the window at the vast emptiness. He watched the rise and fall of a telephone wire. In his mind he could hear his fathers gruff voice softly singing to him. "If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was just a little bit softer." "While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, He cries to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, if only." It was a song his father used to sing to him. The melody was sweet and sad, but Stanleys favorite part was when his father would howl the word "moon". The bus hit a small bump and the guard sat up, instantly alert. Stanleys father was an inventor. To be a successful inventor you need three things: intelligence, perseverance, and just a little bit of luck. Stanleys father was smart and had a lot of perseverance. Once he started a project he would work on it for years, often going days without sleep. He just never had any luck. Every time an experiment failed, Stanley could hear him cursing his dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. Stanleys father was also named Stanley Yelnats. Stanleys fathers full name was Stanley Yelnats III. Our Stanley is Stanley Yelnats IV. Everyone in his family had always liked the fact that "Stanley Yelnats" was spelled the same frontward and backward. So they kept naming their sons Stanley. Stanley was an only child, as was every other Stanley Yelnats before him. All of them had something else in common. Despite their awful luck, they always remained hopeful. As Stanleys father liked to say, " I learned from failure." But perhaps that was part of the curse as well. If Stanley and his father werent always hopeful, then it wouldnt hurt so much every time their hopes were crushed. "Not every Stanley Yelnats has been a failure," Stanleys mother often pointed out, whenever Stanley or his father became so discouraged that they actually started to believe in the curse. The first Stanley Yelnats, Stanley s great-grandfather, had made a fortune in the stock market. "He couldnt have been too unlucky." At such times she neglected to mention the bad luck that befell the first Stanley Yelnats. He lost his entire fortune when he was moving from New York to California. His stagecoach was robbed by the outlaw Kissin Kate Barlow. If it werent for that, Stanleys family would now be living in a mansion on a beach in California. Instead, they were crammed in a tiny apartment that smelled of burning rubber and foot odor. "If only, if only.... The apartment smelled the way it did because Stanleys father was trying to invent a way to recycle old sneakers. "The first person who finds a use for old sneakers, " he said, "will be a very rich man." It was this lastest project that led to Stanleys arrest. The bus ride became increasingly bumpy because the road was no longer paved. Actually, Stanley had been impressed when he first found out that is great-grandfather was robbed by Kissin Kate Barlow. True, he would have preferred living on the beach in California, but it was still kind of cool to have someone in your family robbed by a famous outlaw. Kate Barlow didnt actually kiss Stanleys great-grandfather. That would have been really cool, but she only kissed the men she killed. Instead, she robbed him and left him stranded in the middle of the desert. "He was lucky to have survived," Stanleys mother was quick to point out. The bus was slowing down. The guard grunted as he stretched out his arms. "Welcome Camp Green Lake," said the driver. Stanley looked out the dirty window. He couldnt see a lake. And hardly anything was green. Details ISBN0440414806 Author Louis Sachar Short Title HOLES Language English ISBN-10 0440414806 ISBN-13 9780440414803 Media Book Format Paperback DEWEY FIC Year 2000 Residence Austin, TX, US Birth 1954 Series Holes Series Imprint Yearling DOI 10.1604/9780440414803 Series Number 1 Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2000-05-09 NZ Release Date 2000-05-09 US Release Date 2000-05-09 UK Release Date 2000-05-09 Pages 288 Audience Age 10 Publisher Random House USA Inc Publication Date 2000-05-09 Audience Childrens (6-12) We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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