SACHAR, Louis. Holes. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux [1998]. 8vo, [vi] 233pp. Navy boards stamped in blind with red board spine stamped in red foil. Red endpapers. A fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (no medal affixed). Signed by the author, Newbery Medalist Louis Sachar.

First edition. 1999 Newbery Medal Winner and 1998 National Book Award Winner! When Stanley Yelnats is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention center in a desert in Texas, after falsely being accused of theft, little does he know that he will be spending the rest of the summer digging holes in the dried-up lake. But there is more going on at this camp than character improvement, and Stanley and his new friends are about to dig up some long-buried truths that may change their lives in ways they never could have imagined! The basis for the 2003 Disney film starring Shia LaBeouf and Sigourney Weaver.