Informazioni su questo prodotto

Product Identifiers

PublisherFarrar, Straus & Giroux

ISBN-100374332657

ISBN-139780374332655

eBay Product ID (ePID)947834

Product Key Features

Book TitleHoles

Number of Pages240 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSocial Themes / Homelessness & Poverty, Action & Adventure / General, General, Social Themes / General (See Also Headings under Family), Social Themes / Friendship

Publication Year1998

GenreJuvenile Fiction

AuthorLouis Sachar

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight14.1 Oz

Item Length8.6 in

Item Width5.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceJuvenile Audience

LCCN97-045011

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"Stanley Yelnats IV has been wrongly accused of stealing a famous baseball player's valued sneakers and is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention home where the boys dig holes, five feet deep by five feet across, in the miserable Texas heat. It's just one more piece of bad luck that's befallen Stanley's family for generations...There is no question, kids will love Holes." --Starred,School Library Journal, "Stanley Yelnats IV has been wrongly accused of stealing a famous baseball player's valued sneakers and is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention home where the boys dig holes, five feet deep by five feet across, in the miserable Texas heat. It's just one more piece of bad luck that's befallen Stanley's family for generations...There is no question, kids will love Holes." --Starred, School Library Journal

Grade FromSixth Grade

Dewey DecimalFIC

Grade ToSeventh Grade

SynopsisA darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment Stanley 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.

LC Classification NumberPZ7.S1185Ho 1998