USATODAY.com - For Sachar, childhood is perilous
Sachar has just completed a companion book to his best-known work, Holes (1998), winner of the Newbery Medal and National Book Award before being made into a movie in 2003. The new title is Small Steps and features a character nicknamed Armpit who appeared in Holes. Sachar's publisher, Delacorte Press, has high hopes: 500,000 copies go on sale today, and Sachar is off on a 17-bookstore tour through January.
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