Holes /
- First edition
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.
- 233 pages ; 22 cm.
"Frances Foster books."
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
National Book Award for Young People's Literature, 1998. Newbery Medal, 1999. Young Reader's Choice Award, 2001.