Holes
Louis Sachar
- New York Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2008
- 264 p. ill. 22 cm.
- Holes Series Book 1 .
"Frances Foster Books."
John Newbery Medal Winner
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.