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Holes (novel)

1998 novel by Louis Sachar

Holes is a 1998 young adultnovel written by Louis Sachar and first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book centers on Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to Camp Green Lake, a correctional boot camp in a desert in Texas, after being falsely accused of theft. The plot explores the history of the area and how the actions of several characters in the past have affected Stanley's life in the present. These interconnecting stories touch on themes such as labor, boyhood and masculinity, friendship, meaning of names, illiteracy, elements of fairy tales,^[1] and racism.^[2]

The book was both a critical and commercial success. Much of the praise for the book has centered around its complex plot, interesting characters, and representation of people of color and incarcerated youth. It won the 1998 US National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". In 2012 it was ranked number six among all-time children's novels in a survey published by School Library Journal.

Holes was adapted by Walt Disney Pictures as a feature film of the same name released in 2003. The film received generally positive reviews fr

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Books by William J. Kaufmann III

Black Holes and Warped Spacetime
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4.12 avg rating — 160 ratings — published 1979 — 11 editions
KAUFMANN:UNIVERSE 2ND.ED. KAUFMANN, UNIVERSE 2ND.ED.
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4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1988
The Cosmic Frontiers of General Relativity
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4.33 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1977 — 2 editions
Supercomputing and the Transformation of Science
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3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1992 — 6 editions
Relativity and Cosmology
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3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1973
Stars and nebulas
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3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1978 — 2 editions
Universe
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
Galaxies and quasars
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4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1979 — 7 editions
شناخت عالم
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4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
Planets and Moons
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4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1979 — 4 editions
The Cosmic Frontiers of General Relativity
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4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1977 — 5 editions
Exploration of the Solar System
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — p