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Louis Sachar
“This is a story of friendship with the cleverest of plot twists, and descriptions so vivid you can feel the heat of Stanley’s desert prison burning off the page. A…
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Includes ‘Can virtue be taught?’ read by Louis Sachar.
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A 17-year-old boy, a rich blind uncle, an attractive girl and a mother who is looking forward to an inheritance create a heady and exciting cocktail of opportunity This brand…
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Two middle-grade kids take a shortcut home from school and discover what looks like fuzzy mud but is actually a substance with the potential to wreak havoc on the entire…
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Bradley Chalker is the oldest child in the class. He tells enormous lies and the teachers say he has serious behaviour problems. No one likes him - except Carla, the…
A younger novel by master storyteller Louis Sachar. A child genius struggles with what it means to be quite so clever.
Imagine your misfortune if, like Stanley Yelnats, you found yourself the victim of a miscarriage of justice and interned in Camp Green Lake Correctional Institute. How would you survive? This…
Thorndike Press Large Print The Literacy Bridge –Verso.
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A brilliant companion volume to mega bestseller Holes Readers are reunited with Armpit and X-Ray in this brilliantly plotted and masterfully told adventure story.
After being sent unjustly to a boys’ detention center, Stanley is forced by the warden to dig holes everyday. While the warden claims it’s to build character, it doesn’t take…
David was only trying to be cool when he helped some other boys steal an old lady’s cane. But when the plan backfires, he is the one whom she ‘curses’…
Nobody understands why Angeline is so smart. She could read the first time she picked up a book, she can play the piano without ever having had a lesson, and…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Louis Sachar’s Holes, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions…
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Everyone is laughing at Marvin Redpost. He’s the grossest kid in school. Why? He picks his nose. Well, that’s the rumour the class bully, Clarence, started and no one argues…
Marvin is yet again caught in a dilemma. He’s been told that he’ll turn into a girl if he kisses his elbow, and after accidentally doing just that he wonders…
Classic series of pacy adventures rejacketed for a new audience Casey Happleton works her mysterious magic on Marvin in the final book of the Marvin Redpost series.
What can happen in a mixed-up school that’s 30 stories high? If it’s Wayside Elementary, just about anything. Illustrations.
The hilarious antics of a school club with a thirst for rivalry, revenge and romance
Follows the adventures and misadventures of students and staff as they cope with the effects of a large, gloomy cloud that has settled over Wayside School.
‘Watch closely,’ said Mrs Jewls. ‘You can learn much faster using a computer instead of paper and pencil.’ Then she pushed the computer out of the window. The children all…
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More humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, where students learn to tango, face the cafeteria’s dreaded Mushroom Surprise, and study a hobo during Show…
While Mrs North, Marvin’s teacher is on holiday, she asks him to look after her dog. Suddenly, Marvin has become the luckiest boy in school. He’ll get to sniff about…
Today is Thursday. Today is ‘hole’ day. So, naturally, everyone is wearing their ‘holiest’ clothes. Even the class teacher, Mrs North …But she is soon to find out from Principal…
Welcome back to maths class at Wayside School. How much is PEPPERS + PIG LIPS? If Jenny’s shirt has sparkles on it, will Todd have egg in his hair? This…
Unusual things continue to happen in the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.
David receives a curse from an elderly woman he has helped his schoolmates attack, and he learns to regret his weakness in pandering to others for the sake of popularity…
Suicide Hill is the ultimate test of bravery. Few have conquered the treacherously steep slope without completely wiping out - or so the legend goes. And rumour has it that…
All four books in the beloved Wayside School series by bestselling and Newbery Medal-winning author Louis Sachar are now available in this collectible set!
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Original publication and copyright date: 2006.
An unmanageable, but loveable,eleven-year-old misfit learns to believe in himself when he gets to know the new school counselor, who is a sort of misfit, too.
Stanley’s curse began with his no-good great-great-grandfather. Now he’s been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center where the warden makes the boys build character by digging holes. Stanley realizes…
As further evidence of his family’s bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas…
Readers can join the students of mixed-up Wayside School in solving over fifty bizarre math and logic problems.
From the author of There’s A Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom comes another comic triumph. Twelve-year-old class clown Gary Boone is sure that the school talent show is his ticket…
After closing for 242 days to get rid of the cows (don’t ask), everyone’s favorite school is back in session. Mrs. Jewels is having a baby, and that can mean…
Humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, which was accidentally built sideways with one classroom on each story.
Marvin lives in a grey house with a white fence - a white fence but for one red post. He has red hair and blue eyes. He is left-handed. ‘We’re…
Marvin cannot get to sleep. It’s late, the ground is hard in Nick Tuffle’s garden, he is far too full on cake and he has drunk too much punch. Then…
‘Why did the guy eat two dead skunks for breakfast?’ ‘Because dead ones squeal when you stick the fork in.’ Gary knows he was born to be a stand-up comedian…
Bradley Chalker, the oldest boy in his fifth-grade class, is a lying, bullying, misunderstood kid. When a new student enrolls, Bradley sees his chance to make a friend, though he…
He may be the weirdest kid in school, but he’s not completely hopeless! The triumph of Bradley Chalkers, the weird, insecure bully of the fifth grade, will appeal to every…
When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who’s lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he’ll ultimately learn…
