Not too shabby.Īll these fancy book awards, of course, wouldn't amount to squat in our book if Holes weren't also a great read. Hailed by critics as "dazzling," "heartrending," and "wildly inventive," it went on to win a whole slew of children's book prizes, including the Newbery Medal, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and the National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Published in 1999, Louis Sachar's Holes almost immediately became the talk of the town – well, the librarians' and children's book experts' town, that is. But once you're done, it's so stinkin' satisfying and you just can't believe that it all came together so neatly at the end. Reading Holesis kind of like putting together one of those giant jigsaw puzzles: there are a zillion little pieces, and you really have no clue how they're all going to fit together.
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