Sunshine State Young Reader's Award
2003 · Grades 3-5 · Winner
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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, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day, digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.
It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption.
It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption.
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Sunshine State Young Reader's Award
2003 · Grades 6-8 · Winner
Rebecca Caudill Young Readers Book Award
2002 · Grades 4-8 · Winner
Buckeye Children's Book Award
2001 · Grades 6-8 · Winner
Garden State Children's Book Award
2001 · Children's Fiction · Winner
Nene Award
2001 · Children's Fiction · Winner
William Allen White Childens Book Award
2001 · Grades 6-8 · Winner
Young Reader's Choice Award
2001 · Grades 4-8 · Winner
Colorado Blue Spruce Award
2000 · Young Adult · Winner
Land of Enchantment Book Award
2000 · Young Adult · Winner
Maine Student Book Award
2000 · Grades 4-8 · Winner
Pennsylvania Young Reader's Choice Award
2000 · Grades 6-8 · Winner
Sequoyah Book Award
2000 · Children/Young Adult · Winner
Volunteer State Book Award
2000 · Grades 4-6 · Winner
Edgar Allan Poe Award
1999 · Juvenile · Nominee
Newbery Medal
1999 · Children's · Winner
National Book Award
1998 · Young People's Literature · Winner
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