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Louis Sachar

Louis Sachar

Louis Sachar lives in Austin, Texas, where he writes his novels and plays quite a lot of Bridge. His novel Holes has sold over 1.5 million copies in the Bloomsbury edition alone, and Louis is the recipient of many of the world's best regarded book prizes, including the National Book Award and the Newbery Award.

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  • Fuzzy Mud

    Fuzzy Mud

    Author: Louis Sachar
    Publisher: Bloomsbury
    Interest age: 10+
    Reading age: 10+

    Marshall and Tamaya take a short cut home from school one day to avoid the school bully – through the forbidden, completely out-of-bounds woods. This is a fast-paced and exciting story of bravery, friendships, and science gone wacky.

  • Holes

    Holes

    Author: Louis Sachar
    Publisher: Bloomsbury
    Interest age: 10+
    Reading age: 10+

    Stanley Yelnats' family has a history of bad luck, so he is not entirely surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to the Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre

  • Small Steps

    Small Steps

    Author: Louis Sachar
    Publisher: Bloomsbury
    Interest age: 9+
    Reading age: 8+

    Small Steps is the indirect sequel to Holes and follows the fortunes of its protagonist, Armpit, once he leaves Camp Green Lake and returns home.

  • The Cardturner

    The Cardturner

    Author: Louis Sachar
    Publisher: Bloomsbury
    Interest age: 11+
    Reading age: 9+

    Alton has been unwillingly forced by his parents into being his irrascible, blind, bridge-mad uncle’s cardturner, in the hope that the family will be beneficiaries of the old man’s will.

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