Holes
By: Louis Sachar ; with connections.
Contributors: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, inc.
Series: HRW library.
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Austin, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Juvenile delinquency -- Fiction; Homeless persons -- Fiction; Friendship -- Fiction; Buried treasure -- Fiction
Genres: 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: Novel, followed by narratives and excerpts from related stories and a biographical sketch of the author.