Those were the exact words spoken to young Elya Yelnats the day ... Kate" Barlow is found in a hole, the Warden forces the boys to work double time leading Stanley to deduce they're digging ...

Published in 1998, Sachar's Holes tells the story of a boy, Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to a juvenile detention camp after being wrongly convicted of stealing a famous baseball player's sneakers.