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Holes

by Louis Sachar

Series: Holes (1)

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Stanley is just a regular kid until he is found responsible for a crime he didn't commit. We learn about a curse that has been in his family for several generations. His bad luck lands Stanley in a very strange correctional camp in the Texas desert. The warden has all the inmates digging holes in a dry lake bed. The story weaves interesting tall tales from local history and Stanley's family. The relationships among the juveniles in the camp are interesting to follow. Stanley finds a good friend, treasure, and learns to like himself. ( )
  dgadkins88 | Nov 24, 2009 |
Review by: Sharron Regan. Journal of Adolescent
& Adult Literacy. Newark: Nov 2000. Vol. 44, Iss. 3;
pg. 285

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  TammyReynolds | Nov 23, 2009 |
I have finally read the book Holes! I can not believe it. I have heard of this book for a long time and my brother told me to read it. It was a really good book about a boy named Stanley who is sent away for stealing some shoes. He is sent to a "camp" where he is to dig holes to teach him something in life. Him and his friend Zero escape to find a tresure. I really found this book to be interesting and engaging. I would use this book in a classroom to teach about life in general. The do's and don'ts in life. There are some lessons to be taught and learned from in this book. You can do some reading comprehension with this book and find some "school work" to do with this book, but I think this is a good book to read and teach children other things like morals and how they want to live their life!
  carebear0811 | Nov 22, 2009 |
This book was used in one of my practicum placements classroom and was a wonderful way to keep the students engaged, interested and involved. The teacher used it as a read aloud tool and to silent read. She was also able to pull key vocabulary out of it and question for comprehension often. This book teaches a good life lesson and because of that, it was easy to initiate and maintain good conversation about the events in the book. ( )
  lppeters | Nov 22, 2009 |
In this book, Stanley is sent to Camp Green Lake for stealing. When he arrives at the camp he is told that he must dig holes in the desert. While at the camp he befriends a boy named Zero. Stanley and Zero run away from the camp and find a treasure. When they are found, Stanley learns of his family past and that the warden of the camp was after the treasure he had found.
I liked this book. It shows how even when we think that nothing good can happen something good can come of every situation.
This book would be good to use in the class showing how every friendship we make can have its advantages. This would be a good time to think of a time when students thought they were not going to make it through a tough time.
  susiehinckley | Nov 22, 2009 |
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To Sherrie, Jessica, Lori, Kathleen, and Emily
And to Judy Allen, a fifth-grade teacher from whom we all can learn
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There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
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Amazon.com (ISBN 0440414806, Paperback)

"If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy." Such is the reigning philosophy at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility where there is no lake, and there are no happy campers. In place of what used to be "the largest lake in Texas" is now a dry, flat, sunburned wasteland, pocked with countless identical holes dug by boys improving their character. Stanley Yelnats, of palindromic name and ill-fated pedigree, has landed at Camp Green Lake because it seemed a better option than jail. No matter that his conviction was all a case of mistaken identity, the Yelnats family has become accustomed to a long history of bad luck, thanks to their "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather!" Despite his innocence, Stanley is quickly enmeshed in the Camp Green Lake routine: rising before dawn to dig a hole five feet deep and five feet in diameter; learning how to get along with the Lord of the Flies-styled pack of boys in Group D; and fearing the warden, who paints her fingernails with rattlesnake venom. But when Stanley realizes that the boys may not just be digging to build character--that in fact the warden is seeking something specific--the plot gets as thick as the irony.

It's a strange story, but strangely compelling and lovely too. Louis Sachar uses poker-faced understatement to create a bizarre but believable landscape--a place where Major Major Major Major of Catch-22 would feel right at home. But while there is humor and absurdity here, there is also a deep understanding of friendship and a searing compassion for society's underdogs. As Stanley unknowingly begins to fulfill his destiny--the dual plots coming together to reveal that fate has big plans in store--we can't help but cheer for the good guys, and all the Yelnats everywhere. (Ages 10 and older) --Brangien Davis

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