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Book short specifications
- Author
- Louis Sachar
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- FSG Books for Young Readers (Farrar , Straus and Giroux (BYR))
- Language
- english
- Release date
- June 26, 2018
- ISBN
- 978-0-374-31264-0
- GTIN
- 9780374312640
- Age rating
- 10+
About
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.