Holes

Louis Sachar · 1998 CE · Novel · Modern / American · Contemporary

A boy convicted of stealing a pair of trainers he never touched is sent to a camp on a dry Texas lakebed, where every inmate digs one five-foot hole a day and the warden asks what they turn up. His family blames a curse laid on a great-great-grandfather by a Latvian fortune teller, and the lakebed has its own history of an outlaw schoolteacher and a peddler selling onions. Sachar took both the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award for it.

Open Holes in the archive — filters, lineage graph and full facet browsing.

Attributes

Closest analogues

• Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
  Mark Twain · 1884 CE · Novel

  45% · 11 shared
  NovelAdventureComing-of-AgeFreedom vs FateComing of AgeRace & IdentityEverymanAlly / Companionvs SocietyComicModern / American
• Emil and the Detectives
  Erich Kästner · 1929 CE · Novel

  45% · 11 shared
  NovelAdventureMysteryComing-of-AgeJustice & RevengeComing of AgeEverymanVillain / TyrantAlly / Companionvs SocietyComic
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
  Mark Twain · 1876 CE · Novel

  38% · 10 shared
  NovelAdventureComing-of-AgeFreedom vs FateComing of AgeVillain / TyrantAlly / Companionvs SocietyComicModern / American
• Kidnapped
  R. L. Stevenson · 1886 CE · Novel

  38% · 10 shared
  NovelAdventureComing-of-AgeComing of AgeRebel / OutlawVillain / TyrantAlly / CompanionThe Mountainvs Societyvs Nature
• The Baron in the Trees
  Italo Calvino · 1957 CE · Novel

  37% · 11 shared
  NovelAdventureComing-of-AgeFreedom vs FateComing of AgeContemporaryRebel / Outlawvs Societyvs NatureComicIronic
• The Last Detail
  Hal Ashby · 1973 CE · Film

  37% · 10 shared
  Coming-of-AgeFreedom vs FateContemporaryEverymanAlly / CompanionIronic ReversalThe Prisonvs SocietyComicModern / American