Author
1 book · Grades 6–8
Louis Sachar worked as a lunchtime aide at an elementary school, which inspired his funny Wayside School books. His novel Holes, about a boy sent to a desert camp where kids have to dig holes every day, won both the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award. His books are funny and cleverly plotted.
Grades 6–8 · GRL V · 7 AR pts
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center,…