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Summary: Sachar
Review: Looking at the cover of "Holes" it looked really boring, but once I started to read it I just could not put it down. Stanley who is the main character is accused of a crime whom he did not commit. Sent to "Camp Green Lake" Stanley has to dig a hole as deep and wide (lengthwize) as his shovel. Meeting other wierd kids the fun and adventures never stops.
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Summary: It was a page-turner, big time
Review: Louis is just a great author.It was great.The kids nicknames were funny too.It was my first Sachar book.Right now I am buying more.
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Summary: A Wonderful Book!!
Review: Louis Sachar did a great job writing Holes. He explained everything so well, I felt like I was there. It's about a boy that has a curse on him because of his no-good-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. So he wasn't surprised when he was sent to go to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile center for boys. When he got there, he found out that Camp Green Lake wasn't a lake OR a camp at all. It was just a dried up piece of land. The warden says that digging a hole a day brings out charater in a person, but Stanley knows what she's really doing. Go ahead, try and guess the ending.. but you have to read this book!
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Summary: BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Review: Louis Sachar does the best he's ever done by telling two stories at once and the characters are out of this world. I want to find out about the new sequel that is coming out. I can't wait!
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Summary: HOLES: An Adventure of a Lifetime
Review: Louis Sachar explodes with excitement and unique storytelling. Stanley Yelnats is a boy accused of stealing. He will be sent to Camp Green Lake where he, Zero and 6 other boys, will dig holes. Stanley feels however, that there is something more than character building going on here. Soon Stanley with the help of Zero, another one of the convicted kids at Camp Green Lake, will try to find out more about what the warden is looking for, in a dried up lake.
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Summary: He did it again!
Review: Louis Sachar has done it again! He has written the brillant Wayside School series, and well-written Sixth Grade Secrets, now there is the great book Holes, too. Sachar has given us yet another one of his wonderful stories everyone can enjoy. I would recommend this to anyone. I am not too easy to please when it comes to good books, but I REALLY enjoyed this one! Louis Sachar has quickly made his way to the top of my list of great authors. There was not one part I didn't understand or didn't care for. It was well-written throughout the whole book.
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Summary: Holes: An Adventure
Review: Louis Sachar has made yet another masterpiece that shows his brilliant genius in writing. Holes, an award-winning book is a well thought out jigsaw puzzle that pieces together as you read. In his words Louis Sacher has you sitting on the edge, expecting something, and getting something totally different.
This book all starts a 100 years ago in a town near a large blue lake filled with life, sunshine and happiness. But the story really begins a 100 years later, when Stanley Yelnats is accused of stealing a pair of shoes and sent to a place that has not rained for a 100 years, called Camp Greenlake. It is a barren, hot, desert wasteland, with no shade except for two trees. Stanley is supposedly taught self-discipline as he digs holes.
You will meet Mr. Pendanski, Mr. Sir, and the Warden. But someone you can't miss is Zero. Everyone calls him that because; " there is nothing inside his head." Soon you will really get to know Zero, and you discover he is actually a very brilliant kid, who has a weird relationship somehow with Stanley.
Stanley is the main character in this book. You watch this kid, although innocent of crime, make friends with people he never knew he could. What is most remarkable is that his thoughts and voice come out so honest and captures the exactness of a real boy.
The real theme of this story is learning to like your self and gaining confidence. But when Louis Sachor adds the slight twist of Stanley's No-good-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and the mysterious adventure you laugh out loud and really start to enjoy more than the moral. There are three main stories in this book.
One is the life of Stanley's great-great grandfather, second is of the outlaw Kate Barlow, and lastly is of modern day Stanley. They are connected together with many things and the author jumps back and forth through these tales to unwind a mystery. You will be amazed at how many secrets unfold as this story opens up. Read this book and bonanzas the real reason for digging holes and watch two lonely boys find themselves.
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Summary: Wonderfully Written Book!
Review: Louis Sachar has obviously proven himself to be one of the top young-adult writers. In this wonderfully descriptive book, Stanley Yelnats finds himself in Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention center for boys. The only thing is the camp has no lake, and is hardly green. Each morning the boys rise to dig a hole ( 5 feet down, 5 feet in each direction ). The Counselers tell the boys digging builds character. But as the story progresses, Stanley finds that the Camp doesn't care about the boy's character- but they are looking for something else. The plot is strangely ironic as Sachar tells three tales at once- and they all connect at the end. I read this book in 5 hours and would recommend it to anyone. One of Sachar's best!
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Summary: Classy, inventive, youth fiction. Good stuff!
Review: Louis Sachar has obviously studied at the feet of writers like Roald Dahl and the German Grimm brothers, and has obviously learned his lessons well. With the narrative bouncing around between multiple time periods, Sachar manages to unfold a tale that's alternatingly funny, dark, sweet, and dangerous. This is the kind of book to read with your kids--so they don't miss anything, and so they can work through some of the scarier portions. I appreciate a story that deals so eloquently with the arid hearts of the racially prejudiced without soapboxing. Stanley is a fine everyboy whose courage ends up suiting him well. Perhaps my only (slim) complaint is the jumps in tone. Some portions play off as goofy that the transition back into the hard, hot land of Camp Green Lake is shocking. Or perhaps that's the point--you can't always remain in the fairy tale, even in a fairy tale. Highly recommended.
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Summary: excellent job done of weaving all the interrelated stories t
Review: Louis Sachar has written a wonderful book that appeals to young people from the 3rd grade through the 8th grade level. The suspense builds and actually keeps nonreaders reading until they finish this book! I'm reading it aloud to my 6th - 8th graders, and it's calmed the savage beasts. He needs to do a grammer check on certain sections, though.
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