Stanley Yelnats didn't do it. But thanks to a generations-old family curse, he ends up at Camp Green Lake — a boys' detention centre in the middle of a dried-up lake, where every boy digs holes five feet wide and five feet deep every single day. The warden says it builds character. Stanley suspects there's more to it than that. Winner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award, Holes is a darkly funny and brilliantly plotted classic for readers ages 10 and up.