Author:
Louis Sachar

Number of pages:
223

Does the book have pictures?
No

What age group is this book written for?
Elementary School
Middle School

Category:
Fiction

Brief summary:
When perpetual outsider Stanley Yelnats is accused of a theft he did not commit, he finds himself sent away to Camp Green Lake, a boys' correctional facility. Every day at the camp, each boy is required to dig a hole exactly five feet wide and five feet deep, an exercise the warden claims builds character. But Stanley soon discovers that there is more to it than that. A lot more...

Winner of both the 1998 Newbery Award and the National Book Award for Young People's Literature!