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Louis Sachar was born in East Meadow, New York on March 20, 1954

He attended the University of California, at Berkeley

Married in 1985 to Carla Jean Askew and have one child Sherre Sachar

Awards

The National Book Award for Young People's Literature (1998 for Holes)

John Newbery Medal (1999)

Dorthy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award (2000)

Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers Literature (2008)

He volunteered as an aide at an elementary during college, and his experiences there inspired his book Sideway Stories from Wayside School.

His wife is a counselor and she inspired the counselor from the book There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom.

http://www.louissachar.com/about.html

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Published: August 20, 1998

Summary:

"Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.

It doesn’t take long for Stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption." (Goodreads)

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Published: January 1, 1978

Summary:

"There was a terrible mistake - Wayside School was built with one classroom on top of another, thirty stories high (The builder said he was sorry.) Maybe that's why all kinds of funny things happened at Wayside-especially on the thirteenth floor." (Goodreads)

The first book of the Wayside Series

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Published: January 1, 1987

Summary:

"Bradley Chalkers is the oldest kid in the fifth grade. He tells enormous lies. He picks fights with girls. No one likes him—except Carla, the new school counselor. She thinks Bradley is sensitive and generous, and knows that Bradley could change, if only he weren't afraid to try. But when you feel like the most-hated kid in the whole school, believing in yourself can be the hardest thing in the world..." (Goodreads)

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Published: January 1, 1989

Summary:

"David is only trying to be cool when he helps some of the popular kids steal Old Lady Bayfield’s cane. But when the plan backfires, he’s the one the “old witch” curses. Now David can’t seem to do anything right. The cool kids taunt him and his only friends are freaks. He even walks into Spanish class with his fly unzipped! And when he finally gets up the nerve to ask out a cute girl, his pants fall down in midsentence. Is it the Bayfield curse at work? Or is David simply turning into a total loser?" (Goodreads)

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Published: January 1, 1992

Summary:

"Red-haired Marvin is convinced that the reason he looks different from the rest of his family is that he is really the lost prince of Shampoon." (Goodreads)

First of many in the series.

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(1) Developing and sustaining foundational language skills: listening, speaking, discussion, and thinking--oral language. The student develops oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion. The student is expected to:

(A) listen actively to interpret a message, ask clarifying questions, and respond appropriately;

(6) Response skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student responds to an increasingly challenging variety of sources that are read, heard, or viewed. The student is expected to:

(A) describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts;

(B) write responses that demonstrate understanding of texts, including comparing sources within and across genres;

(7) Multiple genres: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--literary elements. The student recognizes and analyzes literary elements within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse literary texts. The student is expected to:

(A) infer multiple themes within and across texts using text evidence;

(9) Author's purpose and craft: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts. The student uses critical inquiry to analyze the authors' choices and how they influence and communicate meaning within a variety of texts. The student analyzes and applies author's craft purposefully in order to develop his or her own products and performances. The student is expected to:

(10) Composition: listening, speaking, reading, writing, and thinking using multiple texts--writing process. The student uses the writing process recursively to compose multiple texts that are legible and uses appropriate conventions. The student is expected to:

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The class will collaborate to create a book. Each student will write a short story and provide an illustration to accompany it. Each short story should be creative and wacky. The goal is to write their own version of the Wayside series. This is a fun project that allows students to express their creativity while practicing their writing skills.

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http://www.louissachar.com/about.html

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38709.Holes

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15779.Sideways_Stories_from_Wayside_School

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/236056.There_s_a_Boy_in_the_Girls_Bathroom

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/653641.The_Boy_Who_Lost_His_Face

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85036.Kidnapped_at_Birth_?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=13figPCSkw&rank=2