#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER - NATIONAL BOOK
AWARD WINNER
Dig deep in this award-winning, modern classic that will remind
readers that adventure is right around the corner--or just under your
feet!
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.
"A smart jigsaw puzzle of a novel." --New York Times
*Includes a double bonus: an excerpt from Small Steps, the follow-up
to Holes, as well as an excerpt from the New York Times bestseller
Fuzzy Mud.