num_pages: 233
description:    A modern classic . . . from the New York Times bestselling author who has been recognized with the Newbery Award as well as the National Book Award!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 there’s 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.
  
Includes a double bonus: an excerpt from Small Steps, the follow-up to Holes, as well as an excerpt from Louis Sachar’s new middle-grade novel, Fuzzy Mud.
language: English
title: Holes
titlecomplete: Holes (Holes #1)
characters: Stanley Yelnats
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Classics, Contemporary, Realistic Fiction, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Middle Grade, School
ratings_count: 1160969
places: Green Lake, Texas
series: Holes
awards: awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: National Book Award
category: Young People's Literature, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA)
category: Older Readers, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Grand Canyon Reader Award
category: Teen Book, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Nene Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Award
category: Grade 6-9, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Massachusetts Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Flicker Tale Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Pennsylvania Young Readers' Choice Award
category: Grades 6-8, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Evergreen Teen Book Award, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Soaring Eagle Book Award, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Sunshine State Young Readers Award
category: Grades 3-5 and Grades 6-8, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award
category: Junior, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Zilveren Zoen, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Jugendbuch, awardedAt: 915177600000
name: Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: New Mexico Land of Enchantment Award
category: Young Adult, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: William Allen White Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Oklahoma Sequoyah Award
category: Children and YA, awardedAt: 1009872000000
name: Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Award, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: Premi Protagonista Jove
category: Categoria 14-15 anys
publisher: Yearling Books