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Winner of the National Book Award
TIME Magazine's 100 Best YA Books of All Time
“Dazzling” ― Publishers Weekly , starred review
“Heartrending” ― The Horn Book, starred review
“Brilliant” ― School Library Journal, starred review
“Engrossing” ― Kirkus Reviews
“A joyful, eerie tour de force” ― The Boston Sunday Globe
“Wildly inventive” ― The New York Times Book Review
Stanley Yelnats’s family has a history of bad luck, so he isn’t too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys’ juvenile detention center, Camp Green Lake. But there is no lake―it has been dry for over a hundred years―and it’s hardly a as punishment, the boys must each dig a hole a day, five feet deep, five feet across, in the hard earth of the dried-up lake bed. The warden claims that this pointless labor builds character, but that’s a lie. Stanley must try to dig up the truth.
In this wonderfully inventive, compelling novel that is both serious and funny, Louis Sachar weaves a narrative puzzle that tangles and untangles, until it becomes clear that the hand of fate has been at work in the lives of the characters―and their forebears―for generations. It is a darkly humorous tale of crime, punishment, and redemption.
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I read this book nine times. Nine!I really loved it. Louis Sachar was/is one of my favorite authors.One of the things that I loved about it so much was how all of the characters connected with one another.
3.5This book was actually freaking bonkers. I don't know how else to explain it.Between the child abuse and the bullying by his fellow "slaves" I really don't know how to make a proper comment. All I know is that I liked Zero from their first interactions, and that I hated everyone else. But from being creepy to understanding his curiosity and then seeing his kindness, Zero really did stand out a lot between everyone.The glimpses in the past were a delight and their little detour at the end. This whole book was just a great read. Unsettling, for sure, but that was the point. And in my opinion there couldn't have been a better ending, I can't even imagine how you could end this story a different way without detracting from its meaning. I cannot explain it right now, but in a future reread I will try to put my thoughts down better. Because this is surely a reread.