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Author Sachar, Louis, 1954-, author

Title Holes / Louis Sachar
Edition 10th anniversary ed
Published New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c2008
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008

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 MELB CRC  JUNIOR FICTION Sac/Hol 2008  AVAILABLE
Description 265 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Holes [original full text from first edition, chapters 1-50] 00 -- ?Louis Sachar Takes Long Walks with his Dog Every Morning? Andy Sachar 235 -- ?Louis Sachar? Sherre and Carla Sachar 00 -- ?Newbery Medal Acceptance? Louis Sachar 00
Summary 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 "Frances Foster Books."
Audience Grades 5-8
Notes National Book Award, 1998
Newbery Medal, 1999
Subject Juvenile detention -- Juvenile fiction
Teenage boys -- Juvenile fiction
Juvenile delinquency -- Juvenile fiction
Homeless persons -- Juvenile fiction
Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
Treasure troves -- Juvenile fiction
Juvenile delinquency -- Fiction
Homeless persons -- Fiction
Friendship -- Fiction
Buried treasure -- Fiction
Genre/Form Young adult fiction
LC no. 2007045430
ISBN 9780374332662
0374332665