Louis Sachar

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.

Stanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck going back generations, so he is not too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre. Nor is he very surprised when he is told that his daily labour at the camp is to dig a hole, five foot wide by five foot deep, and report anything that he finds in that hole. The warden claims that it is character building, but this is a lie and Stanley must dig up the truth. In this wonderfully inventive, compelling novel that is both serious and funny, Louis Sachar has created a masterpiece that will leave all readers amazed and delighted by the author's narrative flair and brilliantly handled plot.

Stanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck going back generations, so he is not too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Centre. Nor is he very surprised when he is told that his daily labour at the camp is to dig a hole, five foot wide by five foot deep, and report anything that he finds in that hole. The warden claims that it is character building, but this is a lie and Stanley must dig up the truth. In this wonderfully inventive, compelling novel that is both serious and funny, Louis Sachar has created a masterpiece that will leave all readers amazed and delighted by the author's narrative flair and brilliantly handled plot.

Angeline is brilliant! She knows way more than a child of her age ought to. When she is moved up a class at school she finds that her intelligence doesn't equip her entirely for dealing with the pressures of being with the older group. Soon she is finding refuge with a teacher and her tropical fish and another unlikely student. With Louis Sachar's hallmark twist-and-turns of plot and lovely humour, this delightful novel is thought-provoking and brilliant.

There was a terrible mistake. Wayside School was supposed to have been built with thirty classrooms all next to each other in a row. Instead, it was built with the thirty classrooms all on top of each other - thirty stories high! That may be why all kinds of strange stuff happens at Wayside School. Especially, on the thirteenth floor. It is a school full of unusual characters too. Mrs Gorf the meanest teacher in the world. Terrible Todd who always gets sent home early. John who can only read upside down. It is a crazy mixed up school brilliantly brought to life by the irresistible Louis Sachar.

Carla a széltől is óvott, ünnepelt tinisztár, így elég kicsi a valószínűsége, hogy közelebbi kapcsolatba kerüljön egy büntetőtáborból szabadult fickóval. Egy különös helyzet mégis így hozza. Két srác - gúnynevükön: Hónalj és Röntgen - együtt ásták a gödrök végtelen sorát a Zöldtó Táborban, s most jegyüzérkedéssel szeretnének némi pénzre szert tenni. Megy is minden, mint a karikacsapás, jó áron túladnak a Carla-koncert jegyein. Röntgen egy rossz húzása miatt azonban Hónalj majdnem újra rendőrkézre kerül, s Carla az, aki kimenti szorult helyzetéből. Egyikük sem sejtheti, hogy életük eztán már sosem lesz a régi...

Stanley már megint rosszkor rossz helyen tartózkodik. Valahonnan az égből fejére pottyan egy tornacipő, amit haza akar vinni. Erre lopással vádolják, s hamarosan egy javító-nevelő táborban találja magát. Ha valaki mindezt megjósolja neki, a 15 éves fiú nem e váratlan csapás miatt ... Folytatás ›› hitetlenkedett volna. A balszerencse ugyanis előbb-utóbb minden felmenőjét utolérte. Az ő története azonban végül szerencsésen alakul. De miért épp neki sikerül megtörnie a családját kísérő megpróbáltatások sorát? Erről szól ez a különös amerikai mese, melyben az ízig-vérig mai figurák mellett száz évvel korábban élt hősök is feltűnnek. Feszültség, humor, misztikum, fordulatos cselekmény - ez mind hozzájárult a közkedvelt ifjúsági író legújabb könyvének sikeréhez. A(z) Stanley, a szerencse fia (Könyv) szerzője Louis Sachar.

Stanley Yelnatson egy átok ül. Ez az átok legelőször a mocskos disznólopó ük-ük-ükapjára csapott le, azóta pedig a Yelnats család egyetlen generációja sem úszta meg szárazon...Így hát Stanley sem kivétel. Egy nap mit sem sejtve elsétál, mikor egy hatalmas és büdös tornacipő pottyan a fejére. A fiú fogja és hazaviszi, csakhogy nem tudja, hogy a cipő egy híres baseballjátékoshoz tartozik, és a rendőrség már keresi a tolvajt. A bíróság választás elé állítja Stanley-t: javítóintézet vagy egy 18 hónapos tábor a Zöld-tónál. Stanley a tábort választja, de nem is sejti, hogy mi vár itt rá... A tó már rég kiszáradt, és a puszta földet most hatalmas gödrök tarkítják, amit a táborlakók ástak. Nem tart sokáig, mire Stanley rájön, hogy többről van szó, mint büntetésről. Ugyanis a felügyelő keres valamit... Vajon mi lehet eltemetve egy kiszáradt folyó medre alatt? Rejtély és kaland vár Stanleyre, aki megpróbál fényt deríteni az igazságra.

If you go down to the woods today ...Well, every child knows NOT to, don't they? Tamaya is on a scholarship to the prestigious Woodridge Academy and every day she and seventh-grader Marshall walk to school together. They never go through the woods. And when they arrive at school they stop talking to each other - because Marshall can't be seen to be friends with a little kid like Tamaya. Especially not with Chad around. Chad-the-bully, who makes Marshall's life utterly miserable. But today, hoping to avoid Chad, Marshall and Tamaya decide to go through the woods ...And what is waiting there for them is strange, sinister and entirely unexpected. The next day, Chad doesn't turn up at school - no one knows where he is, not even his family. And Tamaya's arm is covered in a horribly, burning, itchy wound. As two unlikely heroes set out to rescue their bully, the town is about to be turned upside down by the mysterious Fuzzy Mud ...A funny, sinister and thought-provoking comic thriller from the multimillion-copy selling author of Holes and There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom.

From the author of the acclaimed bestseller Holes, winner of the Newbery Award and the National Book Award, comes Fuzzy Mud, a New York Times bestseller. "Sachar blends elements of mystery, suspense, and school-day life into a taut environmental cautionary tale."--Publishers Weekly Be careful. Your next step may be your last. Fifth grader Tamaya Dhilwaddi and seventh grader Marshall Walsh have been walking to and from Woodridge Academy together since elementary school. But their routine is disrupted when bully Chad Hilligas challenges Marshall to a fight. To avoid the conflict, Marshall takes a shortcut home through the off-limits woods. Tamaya, unaware of the reason for the detour, reluctantly follows. They soon get lost. And then they find trouble. Bigger trouble than anyone could ever have imagined. In the days and weeks that follow, the authorities and the U.S. Senate become involved, and what they uncover might affect the future of the world.

Angeline is brilliant! She knows way more than a child of her age ought to. When she is moved up a class at school she finds that her intelligence doesn't equip her entirely for dealing with the pressures of being with the older group. Soon she is finding refuge with a teacher and her tropical fish and another unlikely student. With Louis Sachar's hallmark twist-and-turns of plot and lovely humour, this delightful novel is thought-provoking and brilliant.

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.