Holes
What's Holes About
Winner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award! This book is a #1 New York Times bestselling, modern classic in which boys are forced to dig holes day in and day out. 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 Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.
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Holes has been a longtime favorite of mine ever since Mrs. Jeffs read it to me in the 6th grade. The fun characters, the exhaustion of digging 5-foot holes in the desert day-after-day, and a refreshing gulp of sploosh. Just watch out for those poisonous lizards.
Such an engaging story, and a really fun book to use as a family read aloud!
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The Creative Behind the Book
Louis Sachar is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Holes, which won the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Christopher Award, as well as Stanley Yelnats’ Survival to Camp Green Lake; Small Steps, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award; and The Cardturner, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Parents’ Choice Gold Award recipient, and an ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book. His books for younger readers include There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom, The Boy Who Lost His Face, Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes, and the Marvin Redpost series, among many others.
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Book Details
- ISBN
- 9780440414803
- Publication Date
- May 28, 2000
- Publisher
- Random House Children's Books
- Page Count
- 240
- Words Per Page
- 196
- Audience
- Middle Grade
- Reading Age
- 9 - 12 years
- WorldCat Number (OCLC)
- 43986730
- Lexile® Level
- 660L
- Scholastic Level
- V
- Est. Fountas & Pinnell Level
- ~P
- ATOS® Book Level
- 4.6
- Accelerated Reader® Points
- 7
- Accelerated Reader Quiz
- 28081
- Accelerated Reader Interest Level
- MG
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