Author: Louis Sachar
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Keywords: holes
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2008-09-02
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0374332665
ISBN-13: 9780374332662

"If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy." Such is the reigning philosophy at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility where there is no lake, and there are no happy campers. In place of what used to be "the largest lake in Texas" is now a dry, flat, sunburned wasteland, pocked with countless identical holes dug by boys improving their character. Stanley Yelnats, of palindromic name and ill-fated pedigree, has landed at Camp Green Lake because it seemed a better option than jail. No matter that his conviction was all a case

Author: Louis Sachar
Publisher: HarperColli
Keywords: book, camelot, avon, angeline, someday
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 1983-05-01
List price: $5.99
ISBN-10: 0380834448
ISBN-13: 9780380834440

Nobody understands why Angeline is so smart. She could read the first time she picked up a book, she can play the piano without ever having had a lesson, and she even knows what the weather is going to be. But being smart is causing Angeline nothing but trouble. The mean kids in school call her a freak, her teacher finds her troublesome, and even her own father doesn’t know what to do with an eight-year-old girl who seems to be a genius. Angeline doesn’t want to be either a genius or a freak. She just wants the chance to be herself and be happy. But it’s only when she makes f

Author: Louis Sachar
Publisher: Yearling
Keywords: holes
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2003-03-11
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0440419468
ISBN-13: 9780440419464

Check out the Holes tour with Louis Sachar!Monday, October 20th, 7:00 p.m. Anderson’s Bookshop, Naperville, ILTuesday, October 21st, 7:00 p.m., Barnes & Noble, Skokie, ILWednesday, October 22nd, 7:00 p.m., Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop, Brookfield, WIThursday, October 23rd, 7:00 p.m., Red Balloon Bookshop, St. Paul, MNFriday, October 24th, 7:00 p.m. Wayzata Community Church, Wayzata, MNMonday, October 27th, 7:00 p.m., Tattered Cover Bookstore, Highlands Ranch, COTuesday, October 28th, 7:00 p.m., Borders, Aurora, COStanley Yelnats tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humoro

Author: Louis Sachar
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Keywords: cardturner
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2010-05-11
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0385736622
ISBN-13: 9780385736626

From Louis Sachar, New York Times bestselling author and winner of the Newbery Medal for HOLES, comes the young adult novel THE CARDTURNER, an exploration of the human condition. How are we supposed to be partners? He can’t see the cards and I don’t know the rules! The summer after junior year of high school looks bleak for Alton Richards. His girlfriend has dumped him to hook up with his best friend. He has no money and no job. His parents insist that he drive his great-uncle Lester to his bridge club four times a week and be his cardturner—whatever that means. Alton’s uncle is old,

Author: Louis Sachar
Publisher: Yearling
Keywords: face, lost
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1997-04-15
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 0679886222
ISBN-13: 9780679886228

David receives a curse from an elderly woman he has helped his schoolmates attack, and he learns to regret his weakness in pandering to others for the sake of popularity before new friends.

Author: Louis Sachar
Publisher: HarperCollins
Keywords: wayside, school, sideway, stories, falling, little, boxed, gets, stranger
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1996-11-01
List price: $17.97
ISBN-10: 0380791714
ISBN-13: 9780380791712

Titles include Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger, Wayside School Is Falling Down and Sideway Stories From Wayside School.

Author: Louis Sachar
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Keywords: circle, readers, steps, small
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2008-01-08
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0385733151
ISBN-13: 9780385733151

SMALL STEPS is a hip young adult novel from Louis Sachar, the New York Times bestselling author of the Newbery Award–winning smash hit phenomenon book and movie/DVD sensation HOLES. Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin, Texas, trying to turn his life around. But it’s hard when you have a record and everyone expects the worst from you. The only person who believe in Armpit is Ginny, his ten-year-old disabled neighbor. Together, they are learning to take small steps. Armpit seems to be on the right path until X-Ray, a buddy from Camp Green Lake,