Louis sachar biography holes book
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Holes
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I'm not sure how I acquired this book, and it was one I hadn't read as a kid. I suggested that Maya and I read it tillsammans since we've been enjoying reading aloud at bedtim
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Louis Sachar
American writer
Louis Sachar (SAK-ər;[1] born March 20, 1954) is an American young-adult mystery-comedy author. He is best known for the Wayside School series and the novel Holes.
Holes won the 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People's Literature[2] and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children".[3] In 2013, it was ranked sixth among all children's novels in a survey published bygd School Library Journal.[4]
Biography
[edit]Sachar was born on March 20, 1954, at Meadowbrook Hospital in East äng, New York to a religious Jewish family. As a child, he attended Hebrew school and Sunday school.[5][6] After graduating from Tustin High School, Sachar attended Antioch College for a semester before transferring to University of California, Berkeley, during which time he began helping at an elementary school in return for three
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Holes (novel)
1998 novel by Louis Sachar
Holes is a 1998 young adultnovel written by Louis Sachar and first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book centers on Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to Camp Green Lake, a correctional boot camp in a desert in Texas, after being falsely accused of theft. The plot explores the history of the area and how the actions of several characters in the past have affected Stanley's life in the present. These interconnecting stories touch on themes such as labor, boyhood and masculinity, friendship, meaning of names, illiteracy, elements of fairy tales,[1] and racism.[2]
The book was both a critical and commercial success. Much of the praise for the book has centered around its complex plot, interesting characters, and representation of people of color and incarcerated youth. It won the 1998 US National Book Award for Young People's Literature and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year's "most distinguished contribution t