Holes
By: Louis Sachar
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2007
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780747589990
Subjects: Judicial error; Juvenile fiction; Juvenile corrections
Description: As further evidence of his family's 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. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.
Notes: Originally published: U.S.: Frances Foster, 1998; London: Bloomsbury, 2000.