Newbery Award winner Louis Sachar is the author of
The Boy Who Lost His Face, the Marvin Redpost books, and the much-loved
There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, winner of 19 child-voted state awards.
Louis Sachar's book
Holes, winner of the 1999 Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the
Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, is also an ALA Best Book for Young Adults, an ALA Quick Pick, and an ALA Notable Book, and was made into a major motion picture.