Holes

Holes

Author: Louis Sachar

Publisher: Yearling

Published: 2011-06-01

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 0307798364

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This groundbreaking classic is now available in a special anniversary edition with bonus content. Winner of the Newbery Medal as well as the National Book Award, HOLES is a New York Times bestseller and one of the strongest-selling middle-grade books to ever hit shelves! 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 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 —and redemption. Special anniversary edition bonus content includes: A New Note From the Author!; "Ten Things You May Not Know About HOLES" by Louis Sachar; and more!


The Five Hole Stories

The Five Hole Stories

Author: Dave Bidini

Publisher: Brindle and Glass

Published: 2011-02-01

Total Pages: 73

ISBN-13: 1897142935

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Each of the six stories in Dave Bidini's playful, irreverent new book takes a headlong run at the hockey dressing room, and knocks the door down. In one story, a chronic minor-leaguer discovers the wonders—and the pitfalls—of the game in Europe, both on and off the ice. In another, an NHLer is tight with his teammate, the league's leading goalscorer, but dreams of getting MUCH tighter. A star on a losing streak turns to a magical salve to turn his game around. A conversation between two friends yields surprising facts about Joan, everyone's favourite female goalie. A hundred bucks is all that stands between a hockey groupie and eternal happiness in 1950s Detroit. And finally, the eponymous 'Five Hole' itself speaks—though it never reveals all of its secrets. Full of sex, drugs and high-sticking, each of The Five Hole Stories runs its proverbial tongue down hockey's seamy, steamy underbelly and then finds language to tell us what it tastes like. A scintillating look at hockey with its clothes off, in six ambitious poses.


Fire in the Hole

Fire in the Hole

Author: Elmore Leonard

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2012-03-27

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 006220811X

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In this superb short fiction collection, Elmore Leonard, “the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever” (New York Times Book Review), once again illustrates how the line between the law and the lawbreakers is not as firm as we might think. In the title story, the basis for the hit FX series Justified, U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens meets up with an old friend, but they’re now on different sides of the law. Federal marshal Karen Sisco, from Out of Sight, returns in “Karen Makes Out,” once again inadvertently mixing pleasure with business. In “When the Women Come Out to Dance,” Mrs. Mahmood gets more than she bargains for when she conspires with her maid to end her unhappy marriage. These nine stories are the great Elmore Leonard at his vivid, hilarious, and unfailingly human best.


Big Dark Hole

Big Dark Hole

Author: Jeffrey Ford

Publisher: Small Beer Press

Published: 2021-07-06

Total Pages: 161

ISBN-13: 1618731858

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World Fantasy Award finalist It sounds innocuous. The routine world of college teaching. Quiet evenings on a porch with your wife. And then . . . maybe it’s an unexpected light in a dark and uninhabited house, maybe it’s a drainage tunnel that some poor kid is suddenly compelled to explore. Maybe there’s a monkey in the woods or an angel that you’ll need to fight if you want to gain tenure. Jeffrey Ford's stunning new collection Big Dark Hole is about those big, dark holes that we find ourselves once in a while and maybe, too, the big dark holes that exist inside of us.


The Hole Book

The Hole Book

Author: Peter Newell

Publisher:

Published: 1908

Total Pages: 58

ISBN-13:

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While fooling with a gun, Tom Potts shoots a bullet that seems to be unstoppable. A hole on each page traces the bullet's path.


The Whole Hole Story

The Whole Hole Story

Author: Vivian McInerny

Publisher: Versify

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 45

ISBN-13: 0358128811

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"Zia imagines what might happen if the hole in her pocket became big enough to fall right through"--


Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Greenlake

Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Greenlake

Author: Louis Sachar

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-07-26

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 1408850354

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A very entertaining companion book to mega-bestseller HOLES Imagine your misfortune if, like Stanley Yelnats, you found yourself the victim of a miscarriage of justice and interned in Camp Green Lake Correctional Institute. How would you survive? Thankfully, Louis Sachar has lent his knowledge and expertise to the subject and created this wonderful, quirky, and utterly essential guide to toughing it out in the Texan desert. Packed with information about the characters in HOLES, as well as lots of do's and don'ts for survival, this is an essential book for all those hundreds of thousands of HOLES' fans.


Marvin Redpost #3: Is He a Girl?

Marvin Redpost #3: Is He a Girl?

Author: Louis Sachar

Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Published: 1993-08-24

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 0679819487

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This chapter book in Newbery Honor–winning and bestselling author Louis Sachar’s Marvin Redpost series offers a sidesplitting take on the differences between girls and boys! When Casey Happleton tells Marvin that if you kiss your elbow you’ll turn into a girl, Marvin doesn’t believe it. Then Marvin kisses his elbow by accident and starts to feel very strange. He wants pigtails and starts dotting his i’s with little hearts. Could Casey be right? Or is it all in Marvin’s head? You decide! Hilarious and relatable, Marvin Redpost is perfect for kids who love to bond with quirky characters like George Brown, Class Clown and Junie B. Jones.


Small Steps

Small Steps

Author: Louis Sachar

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2010-12-06

Total Pages: 269

ISBN-13: 1408818051

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Armpit and X-Ray are living in Austin, Texas. It is three years since they left the confines of Camp Green Lake Detention Centre and Armpit is taking small steps to turn his life around. He is working for a landscape gardener because he is good at digging holes, he is going to school and he is enjoying his first proper romance, but is he going to be able to stay out of trouble when there is so much building up against him? In this exciting novel, Armpit is joined by many vibrant new characters, and is learning what it takes to stay on course, and that doing the right thing is never the wrong choice.


There's a Hole in My Sidewalk

There's a Hole in My Sidewalk

Author: Portia Nelson

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-02-21

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 1582703779

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Designed to inspire self-discovery, "There's a Hole in My Sidewalk" contains more than 100 touching poems that gently guide readers to a more authentic and fulfilling life.