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Holes (Paperback)
Louis Sachar
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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 and doesn't have a lake) he is
not surprised. Every day he and 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 and Stanley must dig up the truth.
Wonderfully
inventive, compelling and 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)
Armpit and X-Ray are living in Austin, Texas. It is three years
since they left the confines of Camp Green Lake Detention Centre
and 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 and 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? In this exciting novel,
Armpit is joined by many vibrant new characters, and is learning
what it takes to stay on course, and that doing the right thing is
never the wrong choice.
Meet Bradley Chalkers. He's the oldest child in the class. He tells
ENORMOUS lies. He picks fights with girls. The teachers say he has
'serious behaviour problems'. And no one likes him ... Except
Carla, the new school counsellor. She thinks Bradley is kind and
generous, and she even enjoys his far-fetched stories. Carla knows
that Bradley could change, if only he weren't afraid to try.
Sometimes the hardest thing in the world is believing in yourself.
A heartwarming story of bravery and acceptance from Louis Sachar,
the bestselling author of Holes and Fuzzy Mud.
There has been a terrible mistake. Instead of having thirty
classrooms side by side, Wayside School is thirty storeys high!
(The builder said he was sorry.) Perhaps that's why all sorts of
strange and unusual things keep happening - especially in Mrs
Jewls's classroom on the very top floor. There's the terrifying Mrs
Gorf, who gets an unusually fruity comeuppance; Terrible Todd, who
always gets sent home early; and Mauricia, who has a strange
ice-cream addiction. Meanwhile, John can only read upside down, and
Leslie is determined to sell her own toes. From top to bottom,
Wayside is packed with quirky and hilarious characters who are all
brought to life in this new edition with delightful illustrations
by Aleksei Bitskoff throughout. This is an unmissable,
irrepressible story of mixed-up mayhem from Louis Sachar, the
bestselling author of Holes.
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Holes (Paperback)
Louis Sachar
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R340
Discovery Miles 3 400
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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It's a new year at Wayside School, and Mrs Jewls's class on the
thirtieth floor has a LOT to deal with. First of all, they must
prepare to face The Ultimate Test, which involves a fiendishly
difficult Spelling Bee, upside-down singing and blindfolded
smelling. Meanwhile the paperclips are triple-locked in a safe so
no one can access them, Miss Mush is threatening to serve rainbow
stew for lunch - and a CLOUD OF DOOM is gathering over the school.
It can only mean one thing ... the kids at Wayside School are in
for their strangest year yet! From the basement to the thirtieth
floor, Wayside is packed with quirky and hilarious characters who
are all brought to life in this brand-new instalment of Louis
Sachar's much-loved Wayside School series. With brilliant
illustrations throughout, this is an unmissable, irrepressible
story of mixed-up mayhem from the bestselling author of Holes.
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Holes (Paperback)
Louis Sachar
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R222
R170
Discovery Miles 1 700
Save R52 (23%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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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.
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Holes (Paperback)
Louis Sachar
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R200
R156
Discovery Miles 1 560
Save R44 (22%)
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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.
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?
Welcome back to a new year at Wayside School - where things are as
strange and eccentric as ever. There are twenty-nine kids in Mrs
Jewls's class on the thirtieth floor, and this book is about all of
them: there is Todd, who is in trouble every day, until he gets a
magic dog; Paul, whose life is saved by Leslie's pigtails; Ron, who
dares to try the cafeteria's mushroom surprise; and all the others
who help turn each day at Wayside School into one madcap adventure
after another. From top to bottom, Wayside is packed with quirky
and hilarious characters who are all brought to life in this new
edition with delightful illustrations by Aleksei Bitskoff. Part of
Louis Sachar's much-loved Wayside School series, this is an
unmissable, irrepressible story of mixed-up mayhem from the
bestselling author of Holes.
It's a new year at Wayside School, and Mrs Jewls's class on the
thirtieth floor has a LOT to deal with. First of all, they must
prepare to face The Ultimate Test, which involves a fiendishly
difficult Spelling Bee, upside-down singing and blindfolded
smelling. Meanwhile the paperclips are triple-locked in a safe so
no one can access them, Miss Mush is threatening to serve rainbow
stew for lunch - and a CLOUD OF DOOM is gathering over the school.
It can only mean one thing ... the kids at Wayside School are in
for their strangest year yet! From the basement to the thirtieth
floor, Wayside is packed with quirky and hilarious characters who
are all brought to life in this brand-new instalment of Louis
Sachar's much-loved Wayside School series. With brilliant
illustrations throughout by award-winning Aleksei Bitskoff, this is
an unmissable, irrepressible story of mixed-up mayhem from the
bestselling author of Holes.
CURSED! 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'. Now David can't seem to do anything
right. The cool kids taunt him and his only friends are weirdos. He
even walks into Spanish class with his fly unzipped! And when he
finally gets his nerve up to ask out a cute girl, his trousers fall
down midway! But is this the curse at work or is David turning into
a total loser? Another witty and very clever tale by the master
storyteller Louis Sachar. Other titles in this series are THERE'S A
BOY IN THE GIRLS' BATHROOM and DOGS DON'T TELL JOKES.
When a substitute teacher is called to stand in for Mrs Jewls, it
can mean only one thing - strange things are going to happen at
Wayside School. Miss Mush has prepared a special lunch of baked
liver in purple sauce and it is pet day on the thirtieth floor.
There are dogs and cats and frogs and skunks and an orange named
Fido, causing a terrible commotion. Not to mention the arrival of
the POOPS handbook in the playground ... Enjoy all the fun in this
enormously humorous and quirky introduction to Louis Sachar's
famously dry wit. From top to bottom, Wayside is packed with quirky
and hilarious characters who are all brought to life in this new
edition with delightful illustrations by Aleksei Bitskoff. This is
an unmissable, irrepressible story of mixed-up mayhem from Louis
Sachar, the bestselling author of Holes.
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Fuzzy Mud (Paperback)
Louis Sachar
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R225
R174
Discovery Miles 1 740
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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 with Clarence - not even
Marvin's so-called best friends. So what can Marvin do to turn
things round? A great story which reveals that good things can
often come out of bad.
While Mrs North, Marvin's teacher, is on holiday she asks him to
look after Waldo - her dog. Suddenly, Marvin has become the
luckiest boy in school. He'll get to sniff about Mrs North's house,
look in her wardrobe, check out her bathroom and rummage in her
fridge ...Well that's what Stuart and Nick, his best friends, would
like to do. But Marvin takes things a little more seriously. After
all, he gets paid $3 a day and he will get a bonus on top if
everything goes smoothly. What could possibly go wrong? Just how
long can Marvin hold on to his luck...Louis Sachar tells this tale
with a refreshing and bold frankness and again the characters are
vividly portrayed in this the fourth of the series.
A Crazy Mixed-up School.There'd been a terrible mistake. Wayside School was supposed to be built with thirty classrooms one on top of the other...thirty stories tall! (The builder said he was very sorry.) That may be why all kinds of funny things happen at Wayside SChool...especially on the thirteenth floor. You'll meet Mrs. Gorf, the meanest teacher of all, terrible Todd, who always gets sent home early, and John who can read only upside down--along with all the other kids in the crazy mix-up school that came out sideways. But you'll never guess the truth about Sammy, the new kid...or what's in store for Wayside School on Halloween! There was a terrible mistake-Wayside School was built with one classroom on top of another, thirty stories high! (The builder said he was sorry.) Maybe that's why all kinds of funny things happened at Wayside-especially on the thirteenth floor.
'Why did the guy eat two dead skunks for breakfast?' 'Because dead
ones squeal when you stick the fork in.' Gary W. Boone knows he was
born to be a stand-up comedian. It is the rest of the kids in the
class who think he is a fool. Then the Floyd Hicks Junior High
School Talent Show is announced, and he starts practising his
routine non-stop to get it just right. Gary's sure that this will
be his big break - he'll make everyone laugh and will win the $100
prize money. But when an outrageous surprise threatens to turn his
debut into a disaster, it looks as if the biggest joke of all may
be on Gary himself.
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 he hears a low humming noise. He feels the earth
shudder beneath him and there is a bright flash - sort of the same
colour as the green icing on Nick's birthday cake. Is he dreaming
or was that a flying birthday cake, candles aglow? Perhaps
something much stranger is on the horizon...
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 also
left-handed. 'We're lucky to be left-handed', said Mrs North. 'It
means we have royal blood'. One day, at school, while writing a
report, Marvin realises that nothing adds up. His parents have
brown hair and they have brown eyes. Can he really be Marvin
Redpost? Or is he, in fact, the lost son of the King of Shampoon -
Prince Robert? Was he whisked away from the hospital at birth and
are the Redposts really his kidnappers? Marvin sets out to get
things straight. There are a lot of perks to being a prince and
it's all very tempting but Marvin soon realises that sometimes the
truth isn't all it's cracked up to be. Louis Sachar writes with
pace and humour and heart. In this, the first in a series of eight
books, he introduces strong and memorable characters in his unique
and inimitable style.
Marvin Redpost 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 if it is really going to
happen to him. His voice starts to change, he longs to have
pigtails and he even dots his 'i's with a heart in class! What on
earth has happened to Marvin, and will he ever be the same again?
This is a charming story, which will give you lots of laughs. Louis
Sachar has the ability to bring together the absurd and the real
with the perfect ingredients to entertain all children aged 5 to 7
years.
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