233 pages
English language
Published Jan. 2, 1998 by Scholastic, BLOOMSBURY CHILDREN'.
Holes
by Louis Sachar
5 stars
(2 reviews)
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.
Subjects
- Homeless persons
- Treasure troves
- Buried treasure
- Juvenile fiction
- Juvenile delinquency
- Friendship
- Fiction