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Holes is a novel written by Louis Sachar. It was published on August 20, 1998 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, with cover art by Vladimir Radunsky. It won the Newbery Medal in 1999.

The novel is about Stanley Yelnats, a 15-year old boy who is sent by mistake to a camp for young criminals. At the camp, boys must dig holes in the ground in the middle of a hot desert. Stanley starts to think the camp's warden is looking for something. This story is told alongside two others stories: one about Stanley's great-great-grandfather, and another about the area where the camp is located.

In 2003, Disney released a movie which was based on this novel, which was directed by Andrew Davis and written by the author of Holes himself, Louis Sachar. In 2006, Sachar also published a companion novel called Small Steps, which is about one of the characters from Holes.

Images for kids

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    A hole through a dead tree.

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    Perforation holes between a pair of postage stamps from a coil of stamps.

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    In geometric topology, the doughnut and the coffee cup are considered to fall into the same mathematical "genus" because each has one hole.

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    Hole types in engineering: blind (left), through (middle), interrupted (right).

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    Shallow potholes in a road surface.

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    The Great Blue Hole near Ambergris Caye, Belize, is an underwater sinkhole.

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    Hole in the ground dug by a fox as its burrow.

  • Bangalay-bird-hollow

    Hole in a Eucalyptus tree used as a nest by Lorikeets.

  • Two Arecaceae in the fields viewed through a hole in a tree trunk in Laos at sunrise

    Trees visible through a large hole in a tree trunk in Laos.

  • Trees and clouds with a hole, Karawanks, Slovenia

    Hole in a cloud over Karawanks, Slovenia.

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    Sock with a hole in it.

  • BH LMC

    Simulated view of a black hole in front of the Large Magellanic Cloud.

  • Black hole - Messier 87 crop max res

    First image of a black hole by the Event Horizon Telescope.

  • Plated-through holes on an electronic circuit board

    Close-up view of an electronic circuit board showing component lead holes (gold-plated) with through-hole plating.

  • Ovation guitar sound holes horizontal

    Sound holes precisely carved into the surface of a guitar can facilitate a desired sound.

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    First World War cartoon Well, if you knows of a better 'ole, go to it by Bruce Bairnsfather, 1915.

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    A hole in the Berlin wall, 2019.

  • Single-hole-punch

    A handheld hole punch, used to make holes in paper and similar materials.

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