Holes

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Summary: A GREAT BOOK !!!!!!!!!!!
Review: The story of holes is about a boy named Stanley who was punished for a crime that he didn't commit,and it all started with a pair of sneakers. Stanley is sent to a camp called Camp Green Lake ,but there is no lake. All they do is dig holes all day. While there Stanley makes a friend and learns things about his ancestors all while going on the adventure of his life. If you like adventure stories this is the book for you. You have to read the book, it is awesome. You will not be able to set it down it's a definite page turner!!!!

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Summary: HOLES
Review: The story started when zero stole a pair of shoes, but the cops thought that stanley stole the shoes.The judge told stanley he could go to jail or go to camp green lake.Stanley though it would be easy at camp green lake but he was wrong. Stanley got on the bus to camp green lake.After he got there he was introduced to Mr.Sir one of the camps consellers.Then he got intoduced to Mr.Pandanski and the kids at group D.The kids nicknames were Magnet,Zero,Squid,and X -Ray.They gave Stanley a nickname of Cave Man.HE was digging his hole one day when he found a gold tube with KB on it.Stanley gave it to X-Ray and he said that he would get the day off.Then a few days later Stanley became good friends with Zero.

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Summary: this book is good but not spectacular
Review: The story take place at Camp Green Lake juvenile detention facility in the middle of Taxes where there's no lake, and hardly anything is green. The "bad boys" that have been sended there need to dig a hole that is 5 feet wide and 5 feet deep. The reason?"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." is the respond.

Stanley Yelnats gets accused of stealing some professional baseball player's shoes. He was sent to "Camp Green Lake" to serve his punishment. His great-great-no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-grandfather was cursed by a blind Gypsy Madam Zeroni. There are several connections between the past and the present throughout this whole book. If you don't pay attention you won't understand, so you better pay attention if you really want to know what's going on in this book.

This book is is filled with surprise,excitement, fun, friendship, suspension, and feeling. There are many humors that can prevent readers from getting depressed. Friendship are potrayed smoothly between Stanley and Zero,and the moral of the book is very great. This book is great, but there are several downside. For example, overlarge coincidence, the Yello-Spotted lizards make the plot a bit unrealistic and confusing.Also, some scene(especially the time when the camp owner administered some rattlesnake poison) is not suitable for children under 9. Overall, there are better books (especially for children) than this one(such as a Wrinkle in Time, The hobbit, Nothing but the Truth, etc, etc) but you should read it if you have the time. B+

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Summary: 6th grader
Review: The story was okay but I wouldn`t really recommend it. My favorite charactor was Kate because she is brave and has a lot of heart. My favorite line is when Sam says, "I can fix that"because he cares about Kate and would do anything to make her happy. The strong points are when Stanley and Zero are always there for each other. The weak point is when Elya is in love with a woman who has a head as empty as a flowerpot! Though I didn` t like the book, maybe you would!

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Summary: Mind Boggling Coincidences, Great Plot!
Review: The story-Stanley is sentenced to go to Camp Green Lake when he is innocent. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. It's like a desert. "Bad boys" go there to "build character by digging dirt". Each day, Stanley, and everyone else there, must dig one whole that is 5 ft deep and 5 ft all the way around. At first it's hard, but he gets used to it. He meets new friends there, everyone has a nickname. He soon discovers that the people that work at Camp Green Lake aren't just making "bad boys" dig to build character, but because the Warden is looking for sumthing. But what could the Warden be looking for? What will Stanley find and decide along his "trecerous" adventure?

Comments-This book was great! It had one of the best plots ever! Everything soon adds up and connects in some way! There was a barely a boring moment! I could hardly put the book down! It's very rare that I would react this way toward any book or even finish a book on my own will in such a short time. I would have finished hte amazing book sooner if I had more time to. It has a satisfying ending too! Throught out the book, the character and the author makes sarcastic and FUNNY comments! I actually laughed out loud several times! READ IT!

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Summary: Gripping!! Pulls you in!!!
Review: The tale of Stanley Yelnats uis a touching tale of a friendship bond. Stanley is falsly convicted of stealing, and sent to "Fix his Charecter". He soon becomes a popular "camper". This book shows how with friendship anyones life could change.

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Summary: Holes
Review: The title of my book is holes by lois sachar.The genre of my book is fiction. the setting is camp green lake in modern times.
this book is about a boy named stanley yelnats who gets accused for a crime that he didn't do. His father also Stanley Yelnats is working on an invention to recycle old shoes. Stanley gets sent to court and is tried for stealing shoes. and has a choice either to go to prison or go to Campgreen lake. Stanley never went camp before so he thought it would be fun But it turns out to be a disaster every day he has to dig a hole 5 foot deep and 5 foot wide. He makes friends at camp like zero (hector zeroni) and he faces the wilderness as he and zero runaway and learn the secret at camp greenlake. the warden is looking something but doesn't can't find it so she makes the kids dig holes. what is the warden looking for? Will stanley escape!? And will stanleys dad invention work? read and find out.

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Summary: Dig it!
Review: The title of the book I read is Holes. The author is Louis Sachar. The problem is that a pair of shoes fell out of the sky and hit Stanley Yelnats right on the head. Then the police came and sent him to court. After, he had to go to Camp Green Lake and dig holes. Stanley had to stay there for 18 months. I would recommend this book to a friend who likes adventurous stories. I would rate this book five stars.

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Summary: A Review of Louis Sachar's Holes
Review: The title of the book is Holes, by Louis Sachar. The book was published in 1998 and is 233 pages long. Holes received a John Newberry Medal, was the winner of the National Book Award, was a Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book, and was voted a New York Times Best Book of the Year, and is recognized as one of Sachar's best pieces of writing. The story is both of a mystery and humorous genre. Holes is one of those books that you can read in one night because you do not want to put it down. The story begins with our main character Stanley Yelnats, whose last name for those of you who were wondering is his first name spelt backwards. Stanley is a young boy who is plagued by a family curse, which was brought on to the family by his grandfather. Stanley's misfortunes have landed him at Camp Green Lake, which does not turn out to be a camp at all; it is more of a juvenile correctional facility. Although he was wrongly convicted of his crime and was innocent he was sentenced to a year and a half at camp Green Lake, where the motto is "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." Stanley was placed into a dry, hot wasteland and told to dig a hole that was five feet in depth and five feet in diameter. Stanley also meets a boy named Zero after his first week there. Zero and Stanley become best friends and forms a special bond with Zero. Stanley also teaches Zero how to read and do things that he may have never learned if he and Stanley had never been acquainted. It is not long before Stanley realizes that he and his fellow "juveniles" are not digging the holes just for pure punishment, but to find and uncover a lost treasure from the famous outlaw, Kissin Kate Barlow, who turned out to be the very same outlaw that robbed Stanley's grandfather. As the story progresses we begin to see more and more connections between the Yelnats family and Camp Green Lake. As we read further, a second story begins to progress about Stanley's great-great grandfather and the curse that was laid upon him by Madame Zeroni. Then a third story begins to evolve which is of Kissin Kate Barlow and her husband Sam, who was an onion man his whole life. All three of these stories begin to fit together like a puzzle almost, and we begin to see that all of these characters have been drawn together due to fate, as well as with what happens to them. Fate seems to play a big role in each one of the characters lives. The Yelnats family believes that they had been plagues with bad luck for generations, believing that there was a curse put on Stanley's great-great grandfather by a gypsy more then a hundred years ago. But as the story begins to unfold we learn that this curse, may not have been such a bad curse, because it seems to have touched the lives of many characters. It seems as though everyone is linked to one another for a reason all having to due with the curse. No one wanted to believe that such a curse existed, but after seeing all that unfolded they had no choice to believe it unless they were in denial. The curse that plagued was brought on to Stanley's grandfather, because he did not carry Madame Zeroni up the mountainside as he had promised. The plague that has cursed the family is all due to a gypsy not being carried up a mountain, but it seems that maybe Stanley's grandfather may have known a little more then the gypsy because he did not carry her up the mountain, she then put a curse on the family, which then allowed all of the characters to come together and Stanley was able to learn about his past. I believe that this story was written because something like this may have happened to Sachar on a smaller scale though. There may have been a curse that may have plagued his family in the same way that Stanley's family was plagued. Holes is also one of those books that you can sort of visualize what is going on as you are reading. There is great detail used and there are parts that allow you to relate to what is written. For example the very last sentences of the story are lines from a poem that the women's mother used to recite to her every night before she went to sleep. "If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply; Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by. Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly. Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only." (233)

I personally was able to relate top this because my mother and father would always read me the same bedtime story before I went to sleep, which is on the same level as the poem that was recited to the women when she was younger. Each character seemed to hold to hold a very important role in the novel and making it all click. There were no characters in the story that did not belong. Each character was well thought out and played a role that was needed, and was importance to the story. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a story with a serious and humorous approach to a story of crime and punishment

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Summary: Holes is tuly one of kind!
Review: The title of this book is Holes, was written by Louis Sachar, and I give it a FIVE STAR rating. The book's plot is about the main character, Stanley Yelnats, and his life at a juvenile camp for boys.
Stanley Yelnats was not what you would call a popular boy. In fact, he was quite unpopular and unlucky. All males in the Yelnats clan had been put under a curse by Madam Zeroni, and the curse definitely came into play throughout the whole story. Stanley was accused of stealing a pair of very important tennis shoes, and was sent to Camp Green Lake (a camp for juvenile delinquents). Upon arrival, Stanley learns that every day he must get up at 4 A.M. and go out into the desert surrounding Camp Green Lake and dig a five foot hole. The hole had to be five feet in depth and width. One day while out digging, Stanley found what he thought was a bullet shell with the initials "KB" on it, and he reported it to the Warden. During this whole process, Stanley (who the boys called the Caveman) made friends with a boy named Zero and taught him to read. Zero tried to escape and ran away, so Stanley ran away to try and find him before he died of dehydration. Both boys decided that they could not go back to Camp Green Lake, so they went to the mountains.
Both boys found out that the hole that Stanley had found the bullet shell in contained a whole suitcase full of treasire stolen many years ago, so they sneaked back to Camp Green Lake to try and find it. However, the Warden found them as they were climbing out of the hole and claimed that the treasure was hers. However, Stanley's lawyer came to the rescue, and got both boys out of Camp green Lake. The lawyer also managed to get the supervisors at Camp Green Lake arrested for unlawful practices at the camp.
Other books I recommend include Roses Are Red, Jurassic Park, The Client, and Kiss the Girls.