Holes /

Sachar, Louis,

Holes / by Louis Sachar. - 1st ed. - New York : Scholastic Inc., 1998. - 233 p. ; 22 cm.

"Frances Foster books."

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.

Newbery Medal, 1999.

0439244196


Juvenile delinquency --Fiction.
Homeless persons --Fiction.
Friendship --Fiction.
Buried treasure --Fiction.

PZ7.S1185 / H65 1998