Holes (Random House LCC US)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & #8226 NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER & #8226 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER & #8226 ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE& #8217 S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME Dig deep in this award-winning, modern classic that will remind readers that adventure is right around the corner--or just under your feet! 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& #8217 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& #8217 t take long for Stanley to realize there& #8217 s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment& #8212 and redemption. 'A smart jigsaw puzzle of a novel.'  & #8212 New York Times  *Includes a double bonus: an excerpt from Small Steps, the follow-up to Holes, as well as an excerpt from the New York Times bestseller Fuzzy Mud.