Paperback Holes Book By Louis Sachar, Grades 4th - 12th (ING0440414806)
- Age group and grade: Ages 6 - teens and grades 4th - 12th
- Author: Louis Sachar
- Subject: Language arts, fiction and literature
- Format: paperback, 272 pages
- 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 yelnats
- Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boy's detention center, camp green lake, where the warden makes the boys build character by spending all day, everyday, digging holes
- It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at camp green lake
- Boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something
- Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment and redemption