Sachar, Louis <br/><br/>
Holes 
Louis Sachar. 
 - New York  Dell Yearling  2000, c1998. 
 - 233 p.  20 cm. 
<br/><br/> First published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.  "A Yearling book." 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0440414806 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Juvenile delinquency--Fiction.<br/>Buried treasure--Fiction.<br/>Friendship--Fiction.<br/>Homeless Persons--Fiction.