Holes

Dig deep in this award-winning, modern classic that will remind readers that adventure is right around the corner–or just under your feet!

Yoto Says: When Stanley Yelnats is sent to the mysterious Camp Green Lake detention center, it’s up to him to dig up the truth.

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 there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake.

The boys are digging holes because the warden is seeking something.

Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption.

But what could be buried under a dried-up lake?

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