Holes

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Summary: Nightmare
Review: Stanley Yelnats has been wrongly accused of stealing a famous baseball player's shoes and he has two choices: or he goes to a juvenile prison or to Camp Green Lake which is a character building camp. When he gets there, he sees it doesn't have a lake and he has the impression that he isn't going to like it there at all. He was right!!!
He had to dig a hole every day for the rest of his time there. And it isn,t just a hole, its a five feet hole. It is like hell!!!
Thats not the worstafter he finds out about the yellow spotted lizards that can kill you with just one bite!!!

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Summary: Would you want to dig holes all day long?
Review: Stanley Yelnats has come to a "bad boy" camp where the boys spend the day digging holes, but when his friend Zero runs away, and Stanley starts out to find him, it is a whole nother story. Will they get bitten by the deadly yellow spotted lizard? Will they find "the big thumb"? Will they perish from dehydration? Read this fantastic book and find out just what Stanley and Zero are going to do.

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Summary: The best book by Louis Sachar
Review: Stanley Yelnats has to go to Camp Green Lake. He thinks it's Camp Fun and Games. Camp Green Lake is a juvinille detention camp
and they need to dig holes 5 feet deep and 5 feet wide. Stanley
never realizes that he's looking for something, but when he does find something things go really bazar at camp. He climbs a mountain with his best friend Zero while running away from camp.
When they arrive at the top of the mountain they find onions, onions, and more onions. When they returned to camp the dug to find Kate Barlows suitcase full of treasure. I really think many people should read HOLES.

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Summary: The holes of green lake
Review: Stanley Yelnats is a boy
that was framed. He had a choice
of going to jail or going to camp
green lake. Stanley was
poor so he had never been to a camp
before so he wanted
to go to the lake. When he got to
\ the lake he didn't see
a lake he didn't even see water all
he saw was a desert
with a lot of holes. When he got
their Mr. sir told him
everyday he had to dig a hole 5ft
deep and 5ft wide.

The book holes is
very exiting with a lot of
action. I really like how Sachar
Louis put a little bit
of violence in the book. I
also like how Stanley
stands up fore himself. I had no idea
that the ending
would be that surprising. The only
thing that I don't
like is that there's no pictures.

The lesson in the story that
life is unfair.
when Stanley got framed he tried to
tell the judge
he didn't do anything. I
want to find out why Mr. Louis
wrote this book.

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Summary: existentialism for kids ?
Review: Stanley Yelnats is a boy who is being punished as a result of the gypsy curse laid on his
"no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather." He's sent to Camp Green Lake for
stealing a pair of sneakers, though he claims they actually fell at his feet from out of the sky. Stanley
is innocent enough to think that Camp will be interesting, but soon finds himself digging five by five
foot holes in a blazing sun. He's surrounded by a gang of unpleasant fellow inmates with colorful
nicknames and the whole place is overseen by a Warden who paints her nails with rattlesnake venom.
Intertwined with Stanley's story is that of his pig-thieving forbear and Kate Barlow, the Kissing
Bandit.

Sachar has said his story was influenced by The Princess Bride, which is evident in the wordplay and
in a certain fairy tale quality. But where Princess Bride drew on everything from Pirate movies to
Sword and Sorcery pulps, and followed conventional heroic adventure format, Sachar's plot is drawn
more from American tall tales, like Pecos Bill, and, strangely enough for a children's book, such
movies as Cool Hand Luke and such existentialist dilemmas as The Myth of Sisyphus. Fate and doom
seem to loom over the Yelnats family generally and Stanley in particular, though by story's end justice
has been meted out, rather suddenly, to all concerned.

The reviews I've read have been uniformly favorable, even ecstatic, with many reviewers suggesting
that even adults will enjoy the book. But I didn't like it all that much. If there's anything sillier than
the idea that existence consists of mere drudgery (Existentialism) it would be that the drudgery is
followed, arbitrarily, by a balancing of the cosmic scales. Personally, I find the view that life is
absurd to be morally corrosive and I'd just as soon not have my kids fall prey to such beliefs. Of
course, I'm a crotchety old man; this'll probably be their favorite book.

GRADE : C-

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Summary: Holes October, 16
Review: Stanley Yelnats is a boy who went to Camp Green Lake because he was accused of stealing shoes donated for poor childred. Camp Green Lake is a camp for bad boys. They have to dig a hole in the solid ground every day. The hole must be 5ft. in every direction. Stanly has many adventures. If you like adventurous books you will have a wonderful time reading this book. I like it because it's exiting and interesting.

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Summary: how to reform a misguided youth
Review: Stanley Yelnats is a delinquent youth who is in need of serious reform, or so we are lead to believe. Holes, a young adult novel by Louis Sachar, is an entertaining story full of plot twists and humor. Living up to the curse brought on his family by his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather," Stanley is wrongfully accused of stealing a very important pair of shoes. Instead of going to jail Stanley opts to serve his time at Camp Greenlake, a boys camp for boys in need of reform. The theory behind Camp Greenlake is this "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." Stalney soon Figures out that the boys of Camp Greenlake are digging not to be reformed but to find something.
Louis Sachar, takes several wonderful characters and creates a story that is both exciting and mysterious. Along with the story of Stanley, Sachar tells the story behind the legend of Stanley's "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather," as well as the history of camp Greenlake. The most interesting thing about this book is the way in which these three stories all work together to compliment and build on one another. The mystery of the story comes as you learn about the intricate ways that Stanley is related to not only the camp it's self but also some of his fellow campers.
Holes is an amazingly crafted story that will take the reader on an exciting adventure into the life of a young man for whom nothing seems to go right.

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Summary: An awesome book about growing up against all odds.
Review: Stanley Yelnats is a fantastic new anti-hero for our times. This is an excellent circular storyline that invloves the reader from the get-go! If you like adventure and stories about under dogs who come out okay at the end, you must read Holes.

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Summary: A wonderful unique story!
Review: Stanley Yelnats is a poor overweight boy who's under a curse because of his no good dirty rotten pig stealing great great grandfather.For generations his family has always ended up being at the wrong place at the wrong time. now because of this curse he has been charged with stealing a baseball player's shoes(don't you dare laugh cause you'll know what i mean when you read it)So stanley is sent to a boys detention center called camp green lake.At Camp Green lake boys are supposed to dig a hole that is exactly five feet wide all around and five feet deep in the sweltering sun which is supposed to build character. but soon realizes that the warden is looking for something and that one of the boys named Zero is connected with stanley's past.This book is an original story filled with advenventure humor,crime, punishment, and even a little bit of history.

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Summary: A day of Digging
Review: Stanley Yelnats is a teenager accused of stealing baseball legend Clyde Livingston's sneakers. He had a choice to either go to Camp Green Lake or go to jail. He picked the camp. When he got to Camp Green Lake, he realized it was nothing what he pictured. There's no lake: it's a desert! Stanley realizes this is his worst nightmare. The next day he is introduced to his job, digging a hole. Every day each child has to dig a hole 5ft deep and 5ft wide. While Stanley was digging on of his holes, he found a tube with KB engraved on the bottom. After that, they had to dig for days, looking for the rest of the treasure that went with the tube. There is a major problem while digging for the treasure. You will have to read on to find out what happens.

I would recommend this book to anyone. I think boys and girls of all ages would enjoy it. "Holes" is one of those books that you have to force yourself to put down. There is a great plot and good details. It also ties in other little stories relevant to the main one to make the book more interesting. As I said before, I know many people who have enjoyed this book and I am very glad that I got to be one of those people.