书名：Holes 别有洞天

难度：Lexile蓝思阅读指数660

作者：Louis Sachar路易斯•萨奇尔

出版社名称：Yearling

出版时间：2000

语种：英语 

ISBN：9780440414803

商品尺寸：13.2 x 1.6 x 19.5 cm

包装：平装

页数：234

Holes《别有洞天》是美国儿童文学作家路易斯•萨奇尔的代表作，一部充满奇妙创意且扣人心弦的儿童文学作品，也是一部同时获得纽伯瑞金奖和美国国家图书奖的儿童文学，曾持续154周居“今日美国”畅销书排行榜，堪称美国儿童文学史上的奇书。
推荐理由：
1. 美国国家图书奖、纽伯瑞金奖、号角童书奖等大奖作品，学校老师都推荐的经典读物；
2. 故事情节充满幽默、想象、冒险、刺激，能引起青少年的阅读兴趣；
3. 英文原版，词汇简单，阅读难度不大，中学生或大学生都适合阅读。
Winner of the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award! This #1 New York Times bestselling, modern classic in which boys are forced to dig holes day in and day out is now available with a splashy new look.
Reviews
Winner of the Newbery Medal
Winner of the National Book Award
A New York Public Library’s 100 Great Children’s Books 100 Years Selection
“A dazzling blend of social commentary, tall tale and magic realism.” —Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
“There is no question, kids will loveHoles.” —SLJ, Starred Review
“[A] rugged, engrossing adventure.” —Kirkus Reviews
“This delightfully clever story is well-crafted and thought-provoking.” — VOYA
“[Sachar] comes fully, brilliantly into his own voice. This is a can’t-put-it-down read.” —The Bulletin

翠湖营没有湖，它已经干了一百多年。现在，这里是专为坏孩子开设的训练营。都怪糟糕透顶的臭屁偷猪贼曾曾祖父，斯坦利的曾祖父、祖父和父亲就没顺过，这下轮到斯坦利了，因为偷一双臭球鞋的罪名，他进了翠湖营。那里所有的孩子都被要求每天挖一个深五英尺、宽五英尺的洞，训导员说这是为了改善品格。果然，在挖完第四十五个洞之后，一切都不一样了……
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 warden makes the boys “build character” by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. 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. Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption.

路易斯•萨奇尔，美国儿童文学作家。曾获纽伯瑞儿童文学金奖，美国国家图书奖青少年文学奖，《纽约时报》童书奖等五十多个儿童文学奖项，被英国《星期日独立报》誉为“美国作家中少有的大师”。其代表包括《别有洞天》《全班都变成了苹果》《我们学校要倒了》《三只耳朵的代课老师》等。
Newbery Award-winning author Louis Sacharis the creator of the entertaining Marvin Redpost books as well as the much-loved There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom, winner of 17 child-voted state awards. Louis Sachar’s book Holes, winner of the 1999 Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, is also an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Quick Pick, an ALA Notable Book, and was made into a major motion picture.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. There once was a very large lake here, the largest lake in Texas. That was over a hundred years ago. Now it is just a dry, flat wasteland.
There used to be a town of Green Lake as well. The town shriveled and dried up along with the lake, and the people who lived there.
During the summer the daytime temperature hovers around ninety-five degrees in the shade—if you can find any shade. There’s not much shade in a big dry lake.
The only trees are two old oaks on the eastern edge of the “lake.” A hammock is stretched between the two trees, and a log cabin stands behind that.
The campers are forbidden to lie in the hammock. It belongs to the Warden. The Warden owns the shade.
Out on the lake, rattlesnakes and scorpions find shade under rocks and in the holes dug by the campers.
Here’s a good rule to remember about rattlesnakes and scorpions: If you don’t bother them, they won’t bother you.
Usually.
Being bitten by a scorpion or even a rattlesnake is not the worst thing that can happen to you. You won’t die.
Usually.
Sometimes a camper will try to be bitten by a scorpion, or even a small rattlesnake. Then he will get to spend a day or two recovering in his tent, instead of having to dig a hole out on the lake.
But you don’t want to be bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard. That’s the worst thing that can happen to you. You will die a slow and painful death.
Always.
If you get bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard, you might as well go into the shade of the oak trees and lie in the hammock.
There is nothing anyone can do to you anymore.