Camp Green Lake has no lake; it dried up more than a hundred years ago. Today it is a training camp for "bad kids": every boy must dig a hole five feet deep and five feet wide under the blazing sun each day. The counselors say digging builds character. Stanley Yelnats ends up there because of a pair of sneakers mistakenly judged to be stolen. His family is said to be cursed: ever since his great-great-grandfather's generation, their luck has been bad. At the camp he meets a silent boy everyone calls "Zero," and the two gradually become partners during the days of digging. Stanley comes to realize that the digging is not for any character education at all; what the camp is really looking for is connected to events on this land more than a hundred years ago. The novel interweaves the curse on Stanley's family across three generations, the rise and fall of the town of Green Lake, and the secret of the contemporary camp, using an ingenious "multiple threads advancing in parallel" structure to peel back, layer by layer, the truth buried under the sand, and within it writes of friendship, courage, and choice. Published in 1998, Holes won both the Newbery Medal and the National Book Award for Young People's Literature, and is one of the most frequently recommended contemporary English-language YA novels.
Nanhai Publication Company is a comprehensive publisher known for its literature and arts titles, covering fields such as classical poetry, martial arts fiction, and folk literature. Judging from the more than 1,600 books in the database, the company has released classical poetic works including the Nineteen Old Poems and the Nine Songs, as well as multiple volumes of Huanzhulouzhu's series The Swordsmen of Mount Shu, along with related writings by authors such as Guan Hanqing, Qu Yuan, Zuo Si, and Wang Zhihuan. Its publishing character lies in balancing the organization of classic texts with the dissemination of popular literature, placing poetry anthologies alongside long martial arts novels and presenting a relatively diverse literary profile. Public information is limited, and further details about its editorial practices and series planning remain to be supplemented.
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