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Author:
| Sachar, Louis |
ISBN: | 978-0-374-31264-0 |
Publication Date: | Jun 2018 |
Publisher: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Imprint: | Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR) |
Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $21.99 |
Book Description:
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20 Years in Print Winner of the National Book Award TIME Magazine's 100 Best YA Books of All Time "Dazzling" --Publishers Weekly, starred review "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...
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20 Years in Print
Winner of the National Book Award
TIME Magazine's 100 Best YA Books of All Time
"Dazzling" --Publishers Weekly, starred review
"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.