By: Louis Sachar
Illustration by: Vladimir Radunsky
Genre: Children's chapter book
Subgenre: Child's fiction
Subgenre: Child's fiction
Theme: Fate and family curse
Primary characters: Stanley Yelnats
Awards: Newbery Medal
Date of Publication: 1998
Publishing Company: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Summary: Stanley Yelnats is sentenced to Camp Green Lake where he is forced to dig a hole as punishment ten feet deep and ten feet wide. Little does he or any of the other boys know that they are digging holes for a real reason. He makes friendships and ends up trying to escape while dealing with his family's past. This was a very good book with a few twists that will keep students at an older age intrigued.
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