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.