Stanley Yelnats Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake

Imagine your misfortune if, like Stanley Yelnats, you found yourself the victim of a miscarriage of justice and interned in Camp Green Lake Correctional Institute. How would you survive? Thoughtfully Louis Sachar has learnt his knowledge and expertise to the subject and created this wonderful, quirky, and utterly essential guide to toughing it out in the Texan desert. Spiced with lots of information about the characters in "Holes", as well as lots of do's and don'ts for survival, this is an essential book for all those hundreds of thousands of "Holes'" fans.

Louis Sachar lives in Texas where he creates his wonderful books. He writes for two hours a day and spends quite a lot of time walking his dog and playing bridge. Most recently Louis has been writing the screenplay of his novel HOLES, which is being made in to a film starring Jon Voigt, Sigourney Weaver and Patricia Arquette. Louis will also make a brief appearance in the film.

Every reader of Holes by Louis Sachar will know the torture, torment and awful reality of life in Camp Green Lake. They will know how cruel and vicious the warden is, how much Mr Sir bullies the young inmates of the detention centre, how dreadful the food is and how hard the work is digging in the baking Texas heat. In this exciting and unique book, Louis Sachar gives his readers some tips and hints on how to survive should they find themselves, like Stanley, a victim of injustice and interned in Camp Green Lake. Full of wit and wisdom, short stories and more wonderful detail about the lives of Stanley, Zero and the other boys, this book is sure to be as much of a success as the award-winning Holes .

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