Holes
By: Louis Sachar
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Scholastic
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780439244190
Subjects: Homeless persons; Treasure troves; Buried treasure; Juvenile fiction; Juvenile delinquency; Friendship; Fiction
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.
Notes: Originally published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

"This edition is only available for distribution through the school market"--Cover, p. [4].

Newbery Medal, 1999