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Holes

Suitable for 11 - 12 years

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The iconic, multi-million bestselling novel, in a 25th anniversary edition with exclusive new material inside. An unmissable modern classic.

Stanley Yelnats’ family has a history of bad luck, so when a miscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre (which isn’t green and doesn’t have a lake) he is not surprised. Every day he and the other inmates are told to dig a hole, five foot wide by five foot deep, reporting anything they find. Why? The evil warden claims that it’s character building, but this is a lie. It’s up to Stanley to dig up the truth.

A masterpiece of storytelling that combines sly humour with irresistible, page-turning writing.

New 25th anniversary edition includes exclusive material from author Louis Sachar, a foreword from acclaimed author Phil Earle and brilliant readers’ notes from Scott Evans (The Reader Teacher).

‘A witty, moving read that grabs you and never lets up’ Daily Telegraph

WINNER OF THE NEWBERY MEDALWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDSELECTED AS ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME

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Catalogue number

1549 in Education Catalogue 2023–24, 3203 in Schools Catalogue 2023–24 and 745 in ROW Primary September 2023

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781408865231

Publisher

Bloomsbury Childrens Books

Date published

May 7th, 2015

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  • 240 pages

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New

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Author/Illustrator

Louis Sachar

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Louis is best known for the award-winning Holes, which has also been made into a major film.

More about Louis: “I was born in East Meadow, New York on March 20, 1954 and lived there until third grade. My dad worked on the 78th floor of the Empire State Building, and maybe that somehow inspired Wayside School, who knows?

I enjoyed school and was a good student, but it wasn’t until high school that I really became an avid reader. J.D. Salinger and Kurt Vonnegut were the authors who first inspired me. Some of my other favorite authors include E.L. Doctorow, Margaret Atwood, E.B White, Richard Price and Kazuo Ishiguro.

After high school, I attended Antioch College in Ohio. My father died during my first semester, and I returned to California to be near my mother.

I returned to college, this time to the University of California at Berkeley where I majored in Economics. On campus one day, I saw the unlikely sight of an elementary school girl handing out flyers. I took one from her. It said: “Help. We need teachers aides at our school. Earn three units of credit.” I thought it over and decided it was a pretty good deal.

Besides helping out in a classroom, I also became the Noontime Supervisor, or “Louis the Yard Teacher” as I was known to the kids. It became my favorite college class, and a life changing experience.

When I graduated 1n 1976 I decided to try to write a children’s book, which eventually became Sideways Stories From Wayside School. All the kids at Wayside School were based on the kids I knew at Hillside.

It took me about nine months to write the book. I wrote in the evenings. In the daytime I had a job at a sweater warehouse in Connecticut. After about a year, I was fired (my enthusiasm for sweaters was insufficient), and I decided to go to law school. Sideways Stories from Wayside School was accepted by a publisher during my first week at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.

I finished law school, graduating in 1980, passed the bar exam (which was required to practice law) and then did part-time legal work as I continued to write children’s books. It wasn’t until 1989 that my books began selling well enough that I was finally able to stop practicing law and devote myself fully to writing.

My wife Carla was a counselor at an elementary school when I first met her. She was the inspiration for the counselor in There’s a Boy in the Girl’s Bathroom. We were married in 1985. Our daughter, Sherre, was born in 1987. We live in Austin, Texas along with our dog, Watson.”

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  1. arwa
    on 15 November 2018

    best book everrrrrrrrr

    this is one of the best books ever u should get it it might sound boring but if u pick it up u will never put it down i promise u its better as a read aloud

    5out of 5

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  1. WonderInventor208
    on 23 May 2018

    This book was very intriguing and I was hooked from start to end! Louis Sacher tells this amazing survival story in such a heartwarming way! 10/10 from me!

    5out of 5

  2. hawks2018
    on 25 April 2018

    Best book in the world especially the part were zero hits so one in the face with a shuvle

    5out of 5