Holes
by Louis Sachar · first published 1988
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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. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize that Camp Green Lake isn't what it seems. Are the boys digging holes because the warden is looking for somethi
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on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?” ↗…grade), and I remember reading: Alice in Wonderland, Little Women, Sideways Stories from Wayside School by Louis Sachar, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, Julie of the Wolves, the Babysitter's Club, The Giver, Holes, and Captain Underpants. I honestly could go on and on. These are all wildly different books and I loved them all! At that age, I had no idea what I even wanted from literature. I just asked the Children's…
on “The Haunted Wood: A History of Childhood Reading” ↗I thought at first that this would be Holes[0], a novel by Louis Sachar. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holes_(novel)
on “Holes (1970) [pdf]” ↗