How good is Louis Sachar?!

Holes

Author: Louis Sachar

Published by: Bloomsbury

Published on: August 20th 1998

Price: £7.99

ISBN: 978 1 4088 6523 1

First line: There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

Genre: Contemporary Fiction

Age: 10+

The story follows an ‘unlucky’ boy called Stanley Yelnats, whose unluck stems from his great great grandfather who failed to carry a woman up a hill and got a curse placed on his family forever. Until Stanley turned up a Green Lake Camp. A place than is neither a camp, green or has a lake currently. He, and the other boys there, all known by nicknames, have to dig a hole in the hot, hard earth everyday without fail. It builds character you know? Can Stanley survive, even if its no girl scout camp? Will he ever find out what the Warden is really looking for? 

An amazing story or friendship in the toughest place on Earth. Even in the hot, dry desert there is still an trickle of hope. Bathe in the comedy of Louis Sachar and his brilliant characterisation. Absorb through every pour the suds of an unfailing brilliant story that will keep you reading and reading!