Louis Sachar, author portrait
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Louis Sachar

LOUIS SACHAR is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Holes, which won the Newbery Medal, the National Book Award, and the Christopher Award, as well as Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake; Small Steps, winner of the Schneider Family Book Award; and The Cardturner, a Publishers Weekly Best Book, a Parents' Choice Gold Award recipient, and an ALA-YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults Book. His books for younger readers include There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom, The  Boy Who Lost His Face, Dogs Don't Tell Jokes, and the Marvin Redpost series, among many others.

Fuzzy Mud
The Marvin Redpost Series Collection
Wayside School is Falling Down
Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Marvin Redpost #8: A Magic Crystal?
Marvin Redpost #7: Super Fast, Out of Control!
Holes
Marvin Redpost #6: A Flying Birthday Cake?
Marvin Redpost #5: Class President
The Boy Who Lost His Face
Marvin Redpost #4: Alone in His Teacher's House
Marvin Redpost #3: Is He a Girl?
Marvin Redpost #2: Why Pick on Me?
Dogs Don't Tell Jokes
Marvin Redpost #1: Kidnapped at Birth?
There's A Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

Books

Fuzzy Mud
The Marvin Redpost Series Collection
Wayside School is Falling Down
Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger
Sideways Stories from Wayside School
Marvin Redpost #8: A Magic Crystal?
Marvin Redpost #7: Super Fast, Out of Control!
Holes
Marvin Redpost #6: A Flying Birthday Cake?
Marvin Redpost #5: Class President
The Boy Who Lost His Face
Marvin Redpost #4: Alone in His Teacher's House
Marvin Redpost #3: Is He a Girl?
Marvin Redpost #2: Why Pick on Me?
Dogs Don't Tell Jokes
Marvin Redpost #1: Kidnapped at Birth?
There's A Boy in the Girls' Bathroom

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