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Sachar, Louis

Holes

233 pp. | Farrar/Foster | September, 1998 | Trade ISBN 0-374-33265-7 $$16.00
(1) 4-6 With great finesse Sachar tells an exceptionally funny, and heart-rending, shaggy dog story. Stanley Yelnats is sent to a boys' detention facility, where, it turns out, he has a date with destiny that involves his pig-stealing great-great-grandfather, a family curse, the ruthless outlaw Kissing Kate Barlow, some peaches, some onions, a lullaby, and a pair of sneakers. We haven't seen a book with this much plot, so suspensefully and expertly deployed, in too long a time.
Reviewer: Roger Sutton | Horn Book Magazine Issue: September, 1998

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