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Holes

By: Louis Sachar
Narrated by: Kerry Beyer, Louis Sachar
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Publisher's summary

This groundbreaking classic is now available in a special anniversary edition with bonus content. Winner of the Newbery Medal as well as the National Book Award, HOLES is a New York Times bestseller and one of the strongest-selling middle-grade books to ever hit shelves!

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.

Special anniversary edition bonus content includes: A New Note From the Author!; "Ten Things You May Not Know About HOLES" by Louis Sachar; and more!

©1998 Louis Sachar (P)1999 Random House, Inc., Listening Library, An Imprint Of Random House Audio Publishing Group

Critic reviews

Winner of the Newbery Medal

Winner of the National Book Award

#1 New York Times Bestseller

A New York Public Library's 100 Great Children's Books 100 Years Selection

"A dazzling blend of social commentary, tall tale and magic realism."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"There is no question, kids will love Holes."—School Library Journal, Starred Review

"[A] rugged, engrossing adventure."—Kirkus Reviews

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A fairy tale for all ages

This is a fairy tale complete with a family curse, buried treasure and evil villains. And like all good fairy tales it has something true to say about courage, friendship, and love.

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Really a wonderful story

I knew they'd made a movie of it, and that's about it. That said, it was a much better book than I thought it would be. #YAliterature #Clever @happyEnding #tagsgiving and #sweepstakes

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the most coolest book ever

This audio book is awesome it lets you create pictures of the scenes in the book in my opinion it's awesome

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Holes

I loved this book.I love the twist at the end of the story,where the great-great-grandson of Elya Yelnats carried the great-great-grandson of madam Zeroni. I thought the narrator did a fantastic job with expression.

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AWESOME!

I loved this book! It was exciting, tense, and funny. I would recommend this book to all of my friends

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Great book

Once you where in the middle of it, you wanted to keep going . One thing I liked about it was the part where they found a box that had yellow spotted lizards on the box and they found it ,they got on them.It goes on for twenty minutes and nothing happened. There was nothing I didn’t like about it .

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Best audio book ever

Amazing stuff, relaxing book, great for children and adults, good narrator, good story, and an overall amazing book.

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A treat for the whole family

From 10 to 50, we all enjoyed this story. The narrator did a good job with voicing the different characters.

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My daughter

My daughter loved the book she said that it was better then she taught I liked it to😂

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Good book

I had already seen the movie when I read this and was actually pretty shocked at how true the movie was to the book. The only complaint I have I'd that the narrator, while a pretty good performance, his singing is... Woof. Other than that i thought it was great

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