Holes /
Louis Sachar.
- 1st ed.
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000
- 233 p. ; 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.