Books like Holes
Stanley Yelnats, from a family cursed with bad luck for generations, is wrongly sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp in the Texas desert where there is no lake, and where every boy must dig a hole five feet deep and five feet wide each day.
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Aru Shah and the End of Time
Aru Shah, twelve, who lives in a museum of Indian art in Atlanta and tells a lot of lies, lights a cursed lamp to prove a point and wakes the Sleeper, a demon who will bring the end of time.
The BFG
Sophie, an orphan, is snatched from her bed by the Big Friendly Giant, who blows good dreams through children's windows at night, and together they set out to stop the other giants, who eat children.
Matilda
Matilda Wormwood, a girl genius who teaches herself to read by three, is ignored by her crooked parents and terrorised by her monstrous headmistress, until she discovers she can move things with her eyes.
In Desert and Wilderness
During the Mahdist uprising in Sudan, fourteen-year-old Staś Tarkowski and eight-year-old Nel Rawlison are kidnapped from Egypt and carried south, then escape into the African interior on their own.
Ghost
Castle 'Ghost' Cranshaw, a seventh-grader who has been running since the night his father fired a gun at him and his mother, talks his way onto an elite track team, where the coach sees something in him, if he can stay out of trouble.
Pippi Longstocking
Pippi, the strongest girl in the world, lives alone in a ramshackle house in a small Swedish town with a horse, a monkey and a suitcase of gold coins, and no grown-ups to tell her what to do, to the delight of her neighbours Tommy and Annika.
The Count of Monte Cristo
A young sailor is wrongly imprisoned for fourteen years, escapes with a fortune, and reinvents himself to exact an elaborate revenge on those who betrayed him.
Listen for the Lie
Five years after she was found wandering covered in her best friend's blood with no memory of the night, Lucy Chase goes home to her small Texas town, where a true-crime podcaster has come to reopen the case.
The Mysterious Benedict Society
Four gifted children who answer a newspaper ad for puzzle-solvers are recruited by the eccentric Mr. Benedict and sent undercover into an island school where hidden messages are being broadcast into people's minds.
Whisper Network
Four women who work at Truviv, a sportswear company in Dallas, learn that the boss they have whispered about for years is about to be made chief executive, just as an anonymous list of men to avoid starts to circulate.
The Tale of Despereaux
Despereaux Tilling, a small mouse with enormous ears who loves music, stories and a human princess named Pea, is banished to the castle dungeon for breaking the rules, and becomes the unlikely hero of a tale involving a vengeful rat and a servant girl.
Elatsoe
Ellie, a Lipan Apache teenager in Texas who can raise the ghosts of dead animals, her old dog Kirby above all, sets out to find who killed her cousin when his ghost visits her in a dream.