Summary

"If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy." is motto for Camp Greenlake. Stanley runs away to find pal Zero. Their journey to freedom becomes a battle with hunger, thirst and heat in the shadow of Big Thumb. The mountain is entwined in the Yelnatz's unlucky history. To get there means salvation.




Title: Holes (Holes #1)

Author(s): Louis Sachar

Published September 2nd 2000 by Scholastic (first published 1998)

Language: English

Length: Paperback, 233 pages

Series: Holes #1



Awards:
Newbery Medal (1999)
National Book Award for Young People's Literature (1998)
West Australian Young Readers' Book Award (WAYRBA) for Older Readers (2001)
Rebecca Caudill Young Reader's Book Award (2002)
Grand Canyon Reader Award for Teen Book (2001)
Nene Award (2001)
Massachusetts Children's Book Award (2001)
Flicker Tale Children's Book Award (2000)
Sequoyah Book Award (2001)
Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (2000)
Evergreen Teen Book Award (2001)
Sunshine State Young Readers Award for Grades 3-5 and Grades 6-8 (2002)
Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award for Junior (2001)
Zilveren Zoen (2000)
Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Nominee for Jugendbuch (2001)
New Mexico Land of Enchantment Award for Young Adult (2001)
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction (1999)
NECBA Fall List Title
YALSA Best Books for Young Adults (Top Ten) (1999)




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