Holes

　　葉納慈家好幾代以來都很倒楣，所以連天上掉下來的球鞋，都可以害史丹利?葉納慈獲罪！他被送入少年管訓的綠湖營。綠湖根本就不是湖，它已經乾涸了一百多年了，綠湖營也不是營隊，這些少年犯每天都得在硬梆梆的乾涸湖床上挖一個各五英尺的洞作為懲罰。

　　挖洞的目的根本不是為了磨練少年的個性，葉納慈家倒楣的原因也其來有自，這些謎團一個緊扣著一個，在少年揮汗挖洞的過程中，真相就要被挖掘出來……

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　　中譯版由小魯文化出版。

This groundbreaking classic is now available in a special anniversary edition with bonus content. Winner of the Newbery Medal as well as the National Book Award, HOLES is a New York Times bestseller and one of the strongest-selling middle-grade books to ever hit shelves!

Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.

It doesn’t take long for Stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment
--and redemption.

Special anniversary edition bonus content includes: A New Note From the Author!; ＂Ten Things You May Not Know About HOLES＂ by Louis Sachar; and more!
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作者簡介

路易斯．薩奇爾  (Louis Sachar)

　　路易斯薩奇爾生於紐約的East Meadow。他於九歲時遷往南加州，現在則定居於德克薩斯州的奧斯汀。路易斯念法律學院，並且在閒暇時間寫兒童書。儘管路易斯獲得法律學位，他仍然決定捨律師當專職的兒童書作家。路易斯有一位名叫卡拉的妻子與名叫雪莉的女兒。路易斯喜歡下棋、玩牌、滑雪、彈吉他和大聲唱歌，不過他最喜歡的卻是與卡拉與雪莉在一起消磨時間。

Louis Sachar is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Holes, which won the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Christopher Award, as well as Stanley Yelnats’ Survival to Camp Green Lake; Small Steps, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award; and The Cardturner, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Parents’ Choice Gold Award recipient, and an ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book. His books for younger readers include There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom, The Boy Who Lost His Face, Dogs Don’t Tell Jokes, and the Marvin Redpost series, among many others.