Sachar, Louis, 1954-

Holes / Louis Sachar. - School Market Edition - New York : Scholastic, Inc, 2000, c1998. - 233p. ; 18 cm.

First published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.

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.



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