"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." - Vladimir Nabokov
Author: Louis Sachar
ISBN: 9781408865231
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING
Format: Paperback
Synopsis:
Stanley Yelnats' family has a history of bad luck, so when a miscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre which isn't green and doesn't have a lake he is not surprised. Every day he and the other inmates are told to dig a hole, five foot wide by five foot deep, reporting anything they find. The evil warden claims that it is character building, but this is a lie and Stanley must dig up the truth. Wonderfully inventive, compelling and hilarious, Louis Sachar has created a masterpiece. This multi-million bestseller now in an exciting new package ahead of the publication of Sachar's newest 9-11 fiction title Fuzzy Mud publishing August 2015
