A brilliant companion volume to the mega-bestselling Holes. Armpit & X-Ray are living in Austin Texas. It is three years since they left the confines of Camp Green Lake Detention Centre & Armpit is taking small steps to turn his life around. He is working for a landscape gardener because he is good at digging holes he is going to school & he is enjoying his first proper romance but is he going to be able to stay out of trouble when there is so much building up against him?