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20 Years in Print.

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.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 272
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 978-0-374-31264-0
  • EAN
  • 9780374312640
  • Release date
  • 2018
  • Age restriction
  • 10+