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Louis Sachar ( / ˈsækər / SAK-ər; [1] born March 20, 1954) is an American young-adult mystery-comedy author. He is best known for the Wayside School series and the novel Holes .
About the Author. I was born in East Meadow, New York on March 20, 1954 and lived there until third grade. My dad worked on the 78th floor of the Empire State Building, and maybe that somehow inspired Wayside School, who knows? When I was nine years old, we moved to Tustin California.
(born 1954). Louis Sachar is the author of many popular and award-winning books for children. His book Holes won a Newbery award in 1999. The award honors the best work of American literature for children each year. The book was made into a movie in 2003.
LOUIS SACHAR - Featured. NEW: The latest addition to the Wayside School Series. A Letter from the Author. "Louis Sachar returns to wacky Wayside School more than 40 years after ‘Sideways Stories’ " “I think it’s important that kids feel hopeful.”
Louis Sachar (pronounced Sacker), born March 20, 1954, is an American author of children's books. Louis was born in East Meadow, New York, in 1954. When he was nine, he moved to Tustin, California. He went to college at the University of California at Berkeley and graduated in 1976, as an economics major.
Combining his signature wit with a unique blend of adventure and deeply felt characters, Sachar explores issues of race, the nature of celebrity, the invisible connections that shape a person's life, and what it takes to stay the course.
Aug 20, 1998 · Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.
Louis Sachar. Winner, National Book Awards 1998. Newbery Award-winning author Louis Sachar is 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 is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Holes, which won the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Christopher Award, as well as Stanley Yelnats’ Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake; Small Steps, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award; and The Cardturner, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Parents’ Choice ...
Louis Sachar is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Holes, which won the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Christopher Award, as well as...
