Newbery Award winner Louis Sachar is the author of Dogs Don t Tell Jokes, 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."