Stanley Yelnats' family has a history of bad luck so when a miscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre (which isn't green & doesn't have a lake) he is not surprised Every day he & the other inmates are told to dig a hole five foot wide by five foot deep reporting anything they find The evil warden claims that it is character building but this is a lie & Stanley must dig up the truth Wonderfully inventive compelling & hilarious Louis Sachar has created a masterpiece This multi-million bestseller now in an exciting new package ahead of the publication of Sachar's newest 9-11 fiction title Fuzzy Mud (publishing August 2015)