Holes /
Louis Sachar.
- New York : Yearling, 2000, 1998.
- 233 pages ; 20 cm
Originally published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. "A Yearling book."
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.