Holes

Loyal 42nd Page reader Matt Smith writes to tell us that on the forty-second page of “Holes” author Louis Sachar wrote (emphasis Matt's):

The yellow-spotted lizards like to live in holes, which offer shade from the sun and protection from predatory birds.  Up to twenty lizards may live in one hole. They have strong, powerful legs, and can leap out of very deep holes to attack their prey. They eat small animals, insects, certain cactus thorns, and the shells of sunflower seeds.

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(Bloomsbury Children, October 2000. 233 pages. ISBN: 0439244196; EAN: 9780439244190.)