Sachar, Louis
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UPC: 9780374312640,
Type: Hardcover ,
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"Heartrending" --The Horn Book, starred review
"Brilliant" --School Library Journal, starred review
"Engrossing" --Kirkus Reviews
"A joyful, eerie tour de force" --The Boston Sunday Globe
"Wildly inventive" --The New York Times Book Review Stanley Yelnats's family has a history of bad luck, so he isn't too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys' juvenile detention center, Camp Green Lake. But there is no lake--it has been dry for over a hundred years--and it's hardly a camp: as punishment, the boys must each dig a hole a day, five feet deep, five feet across, in the hard earth of the dried-up lake bed. The warden claims that this pointless labor builds character, but that's a lie. Stanley must try to dig up the truth. In this wonderfully inventive, compelling novel that is both serious and funny, Louis Sachar weaves a narrative puzzle that tangles and untangles, until it becomes clear that the hand of fate has been at work in the lives of the characters--and their forebears--for generations. It is a darkly humorous tale of crime, punishment, and redemption.
20 Years in Print
Winner of the National Book Award
TIME Magazine's 100 Best YA Books of All Time
"Heartrending" --The Horn Book, starred review
"Brilliant" --School Library Journal, starred review
"Engrossing" --Kirkus Reviews
"A joyful, eerie tour de force" --The Boston Sunday Globe
"Wildly inventive" --The New York Times Book Review Stanley Yelnats's family has a history of bad luck, so he isn't too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys' juvenile detention center, Camp Green Lake. But there is no lake--it has been dry for over a hundred years--and it's hardly a camp: as punishment, the boys must each dig a hole a day, five feet deep, five feet across, in the hard earth of the dried-up lake bed. The warden claims that this pointless labor builds character, but that's a lie. Stanley must try to dig up the truth. In this wonderfully inventive, compelling novel that is both serious and funny, Louis Sachar weaves a narrative puzzle that tangles and untangles, until it becomes clear that the hand of fate has been at work in the lives of the characters--and their forebears--for generations. It is a darkly humorous tale of crime, punishment, and redemption.
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