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'''''Holes''''' is a 1998 [[young-adult fiction|young adults]] [[novel]] written by [[Louis Sachar]] and first published by [[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]. It won the 1999 U.S. [[National Book Award for Young People's Literature]]<ref name=nba1998>[http://www.nationalbook.org/nba1998.html "National Book Awards – 1999"]. [[National Book Foundation]]. Retrieved 2012-01-26. <br>(With acceptance speech by Sachar.)</ref> |
'''''Holes''''' is a 1998 [[young-adult fiction|young adults]] [[novel]] written by [[Louis Sachar]] and first published by [[Farrar, Straus and Giroux]]. It won the 1999 U.S. [[National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Holes is on of the |
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Best selling novel books in the U.S.]]<ref name=nba1998>[http://www.nationalbook.org/nba1998.html "National Book Awards – 1999"]. [[National Book Foundation]]. Retrieved 2012-01-26. <br>(With acceptance speech by Sachar.)</ref> |
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and the 1999 [[Newbery Medal]] for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children".<ref name=newbery>[http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal "Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present"]. [[Association for Library Service to Children]]. ALA. Retrieved 2012-03-26.</ref> Originally, the book was to be called '''''Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Wrong Kid'''''. It was adapted into a [[Holes (film)|film]] by [[Walt Disney Pictures]] and released in 2003. |
and the 1999 [[Newbery Medal]] for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children".<ref name=newbery>[http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/newberymedal/newberyhonors/newberymedal "Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present"]. [[Association for Library Service to Children]]. ALA. Retrieved 2012-03-26.</ref> Originally, the book was to be called '''''Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Wrong Kid'''''. It was adapted into a [[Holes (film)|film]] by [[Walt Disney Pictures]] and released in 2003. |
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| Author | Louis Sachar |
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| Cover artist | Vladimir Radunsky |
| Language | Adventure, Satire |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US) Bloomsbury (UK) Ediciones SM (Spain) |
Publication date | August 20, 1998 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover & paperback) |
| Pages | 241 pp (first edition) 233 pp (second ed.) 497 pp (on iPad) |
| ISBN | 978-0-440-41480-3 |
| OCLC | 38002572 |
| [Fic] 21 | |
| LC Class | PZ7.S1185 Ho 1998 |
| Followed by | Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake |
Holes is a 1998 young adults novel written by Louis Sachar and first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It won the 1999 U.S. [[National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Holes is on of the Best selling novel books in the U.S.]][1] and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children".[2] Originally, the book was to be called Wrong Place, Wrong Time, Wrong Kid. It was adapted into a film by Walt Disney Pictures and released in 2003.
Plot
At the beginning of the story, Stanley, a teenage boy who is supposedly affected by a family "curse", has been wrongly accused of stealing the shoes of the baseball player Clyde "sweet feet" Livingstone from a charity auction. As punishment for this crime he was given a choice to either go to jail or get banished to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention and correctional facility where convicts of about the same age are forced to dig holes to "build their character". Warden Walker, real granddaughter of Trout Walker, is actually looking for a buried treasure that outlaw Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow stole from Stanley's great-grandfather. Years ago, Stanley's family got cursed by Madame Zeroni, a fortune-teller and ancestor, due to a promise not fulfilled by Elya Yelnats, Stanley's great-great-grandfather, more popularly known in the novel as a "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather".
At Camp Green Lake, Stanley befriends Hector "Zero" Zeroni, who gets in trouble and runs away. Stanley soon follows in concern for his safety. Zero had been living on jars of very old spiced peaches that he had found in the boat, Mary Lou, which he called "Sploosh". Upon seeing a mountain resembling a human fist giving the thumbs up sign, Stanley recalls the story of his ancestor Stanley Yelnats, the first, who finds "refuge on God’s thumb", which Zero and Stanley climb in search of water and food.
Atop the river, Stanley discovers a field of onions, which the boys eat, and a pool of groundwater, which they drink, and during their contentment Stanley sings to Zero and says that they should return to Camp Green Lake to find the buried treasure. Upon returning, Zero steals some water and food from the kitchens while Stanley looks for the buried treasure. At this they succeed, but are apprehended by the Warden and the camp staff, and become surrounded by a group of lethal yellow-spotted lizards. Because the boys have consumed onions, the lizards do not bite them. Unable to leave the hole they occupy, they remain in place until the next morning, during which an attorney arrives requesting Stanley’s release. When the warden demands the suitcase, Zero indicates the name ‘Stanley Yelnats’ written on it, its contents being the jewels, deeds, stocks and promissory notes stolen from Stanley Yelnats the first.
Protagonist Stanley IV then uses the bonds to buy a new house for his family, and Zero hires a team of investigators to find his missing mother; meanwhile, the drought at Green Lake is replaced by rainfall, as if in response to Stanley's fulfilment of his ancestor's promise (a suggestion left purposely ambiguous by the narration). In a final scene, Clyde Livingston, along with the Yelnats and Zeroni families, celebrates the success of Stanley’s father's antidote to foot odor, composed of preserved and fermented spiced peaches and named "Sploosh" by Zero. The warden is forced to sell Camp Green Lake to the state government, who turns it into a Girl Scout camp.
Setting
"Holes" takes place at Camp Green Lake in Texas. The history of Camp Green Lake is gradually revealed through occasional flashbacks. The town used to be home to the largest lake in the state, but became a dry lake-bed after Sam was killed on the lake 110 years earlier. Afterwards Kate Barlow, Sam's lover, became an outlaw and eventually stole the treasure from Stanley's great-grandfather and buried it. After Stanley, the great-great-grandson of Elya Yelnats, carried Zero, a descendant of Madame Zeroni up to the mountaintop, he unknowingly broke the curse that had haunted the Yelnats for generations by singing the lullaby to Zero, and rain finally falls on Camp Green Lake.
Film adaptation
In 2003, Walt Disney Pictures released a film version of Holes, which was directed by Andrew Davis and written by Louis Sachar.[3] The film was a modest success at the box office and a critical success.
Sequels
Two companion novels have followed Holes: Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake (2003) and Small Steps (2006).[4]
See also
References
- ^ "National Book Awards – 1999". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-01-26.
(With acceptance speech by Sachar.) - ^ "Newbery Medal and Honor Books, 1922-Present". Association for Library Service to Children. ALA. Retrieved 2012-03-26.
- ^ Holes at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ http://www.bookbrowse.com/reviews/index.cfm?book_number=1742
External links
- Louis Sachar's website for Holes