Holes

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Summary: Very Well Written!!
Review: There is just not enough to say about this book. It's another well written, humourous story by my favourite author, Louis Sachar. All the mysteries and secrets in the book fit together SO WELL, you will just not believe what you read. My teacher just recently read it to our class, and everyone listened with rapt attention. There wasn't a dull moment in this book. You can't just put this book down without a real reason to. If you only read one book in your whole life, you should read HOLES!!!

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Summary: So much for camp Green Lake
Review: There is no camp like Camp Green Lake. Situated in what was once the largest like in Texas, the dried up desert in now home to a detention center for boys. The boys that were sent to Camp Green Lake were in for the worst 18 months of their lives. Each day the juvenile delinquents would wake up at 4:30 AM to dig a hole. The hole had to be exactly five feet around and five feet deep in all directions. The Warden of the camp explained that digging holes "built character", but the main character, Stanley Yelnats, would soon find out that this was not at all what the Warden was interested in.
I would definately recommend this book to anyone who likes stories that make ou put things together throughout the novel. Louis Sachar cleverly incorperates humor, adventure, fantasy and sheer intelligence. There is no doubt that Holes by Louis Sachar deserves the Newbery Medal, and all the other awards that the novel has earned since it's debut in 1998. My only regret is that I didn't read it sooner.

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Summary: Holes (A review by Jason)
Review: There is no lake in Camp Green Lake. What kind of start is that? Well, if you want to know, you came to the right person. This book is called Holes. It is an adventure book you'll never forget. Holes tells you about Stanley, a boy that believes his family is under a spell. This is Stanley's proof: he was walking home from school when a pair of shoes that belonged to a popular baseball player named Clyde Livingston or known as "Sweet Feet" hit him. Stanley is sent to to Camp Green Lake because everyone thought he stole the shoes. Stanley turns from good boy to bad boy or a D-tent boy. When the warden is to find something, Stanley and his buddy Zero are gaining on her. When Stanley finds this thing the warden wants, will he get to go home?

I really liked Holes because it takes you on an adventure that won't forget. They even made a it into a movie. It grabs the reader's mind opinions. They really want to learn more about it . "There is no lake in Camp Green Lake". This sentence grabs the reader and makes the reader and takes him or her guessing what is Camp Green Lake , where is it. If you read this book already, did you enjoy it? I hope you liked it like me because it is reallya good book for reading. I started reading it in the summer. Everyone usually kind of gets in trouble sometime in school. But how does Stanley get in trouble for what he didn't do? Stanley is really not easy to be if you were in his shoes because Stanley faces trouble like the shoe stealing and just takes the blame. Most people will say something to try to get themselves into, but not Stanley.

In Holes, it doesn't really tell much about Stanley's friends. They are Zigzag, Armpit, Magnet, Zero, X-Ray, and Squid. The story really only talks about him and his great-great grandfather. It doesn't really talk about what happened after Stanley and Zero returned home. Zero's real name is Hector Zeroni.

My favorite part of the story is when Stanley and Zero finds what the warden wants, the gold. It really belonged to Stanley. It even had his name on it. I chose this as my favorite part because I want that box of gold and it could buy me a fortune.

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Summary: Holes
Review: There Stanley Yelnats was. Sitting in court (all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.) Finally after a few months her had to decide between going to prison or going to Camp Green Lake. He chose camp green lake. When he gets there he noticed there's no lake... Just holes. "You want to run away?" Mr. Sir asked him.

Stanley looked back at him, unsure what he meant.

"If you want to run away go ahead, start running. I'm not going to stop you."

Stanley didn't know what kind of game Mr. Sir was playing.

"I see your looking at my gun. Don't worry. I'm not going to shoot you.

"I'm not going to run away," Stanley said.

"Good thinking," said Mr. Sir. "Nobody runs away from here. We don't need a fence. Know why? Because we got the only water for 100 miles. You want to run away? You'll be buzzard food in three days."

Stanley finds many adventures in Camp Green lake. Will he fit in? Most importantly will he survive? Or Will he run away and die? Mr. Sir and the Warden says you have to dig a hole everyday, 5 ft. long, wide and deep. You use you shovel to measure. They say you dig a hole each day to build your character. Buy Stanley and the kids at Camp Green lake find out otherwise...
You have to read Holes to find out what will happen. I fell in LOVE with the book. It's my all-time favorite book. I bet you'll love it too if you read it.

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Summary: Holes
Review: There was a guy named Stanly Yelnats, about 13 year old who was walking along and all of a sudden these really expensive shoes fall out of the air upon him. Cops found him with them and arrested him. Stanly went to a lake called Camp Green Lake for his punishment. At Camp Green Lake he had to dig holes because the boss said it would build character but really there was a whole other reason. One day Stanly ran away and never came back for a long time.

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Summary: Holes
Review: There was a kid named Stanley Yelnats that got caught with some stolen shoes(but he did not realy steel them.)So he had a choice eihter to go to Camp Green Lake or go to jail!He choose Camp Green Lake and was sent right away.So when he got there he saw the Lake but there was no water in the lake it was dry.Then he had to start to dig right away.They had to dig all day long with only a little canteen full of water.So one day he thoutht he saw something in his hole and he found half of a lipstick container with the letters KB on the side of it.He gave it to his friend Zigzag and Zigzag got the day of not Stanley.Then he got cuaght with some of Mr.Sir's sunflowerseeds.So he had too go to the Warden's cabin and he did not get in trouble Mr.Sir did and the Warden cut his face with rattelsnack vinnam.So he went back and started to teech Zero how to read and wright and found out that his tallet was math.Then one day Zero ran away and Stanley went to look for him.then about 2 days later he found him in a hole under a boat in the middle of the dry lake.Then the Warden found them both then they ran into a diedly yellow-spotted lizard.But the lizard did not bit them because they had onicon blood on them.So they went back to camp and they found a suitcase with jewels,gold.So Stanley got to go home and Zero's agent came and he got to leeve Camp Green Lake too.

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Summary: A Holes Review by me
Review: There were a couple of strong points in Holes. One strong point is it always kept me excited of what was going to happen next. I always wanted to read more when I got home to find out what would happen. Also Louis Sachar filled in most of the Holes. I also liked how Sachar had three worlds in the story. A weak point in Holes is sometimes you would be in one world of Holes and something very exciting would be about to happen then it would cange worlds. I didn't like how Sachar left me hanging at the end. At the end I really liked Holes.

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Summary: There were no hoes in this book....
Review: There were no holes in the book Holes by Louis Sachar. In this book a boy named Stanley Yelnats is sent to Camp Greenlake, a Juvenile Detention camp in the middle of Texas. There is only one catch; Camp Greenlake doesn't live up to it's picturesque name. Camp Greenlake is located in the middle of a dry barren stretch of land in Texas, where temperatures often reach over 100 F each day! There's no lake and nothing green except two trees that stand tall in front of the Warden's cabin. Camp isn't like camp there, it's more like a year from heck. Each day, each boy has to dig a hole. That sounds easy right? Well, it's not that simple... the hole must me 5 feet deep and 5 feet wide. The horrible warden says "If you take a boy and make him dig a hole everyday in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy."

Stanley and his fellow "campers", Zero, Barf-Bag, Armpit, Cave Man, Zig-Zag and the others think that there is another reason that they are digging the holes. Come to find out the Warden is making them dig and search the dry lake bed for the treasure of Kissing Kate Barlow, a woman who lived in Greenlake when there was still a lake. When her crush dies, Sachar shows the reader a different side of Kate. The book takes an amazing turn near the end of the story.

Louis Sachar does a wonderful job of telling the fictional life of a 14 year old boy and his journeys at Juvenile Detention Camp. I would give this book 4.5 stars because it was wonderfully written and the only thing I think Sachar could have added or changed is in the ending. I think he should have told the reader a little more about his later life then he did. This book definitely deserves the National Book Award it won and I would definitely recommend it to all of you.

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Summary: Fantastic Book for All Ages
Review: There's a curse haunting the Yelnats family. The curse has followed generations of Yelants, and now it's time to haunt Stanley Yelnats. Why he should suffer, when the curse started because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather, is beyond him. But he must. So Stanley is sent to a boys' detention center called Camp Green Lake, a place where there is no lake, like the name tries to make you believe, and where the residents spend all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. Stanley quickly realizes that this whole "digging holes" thing isn't really a character improvement activity, but actually a search for something that the warden of the camp wants desperately. Stanley and the other boys try to dig up the truth, but will their curiosity bring grave consequences to them all?

After seeing the movie I just had to read the book. I am absolutely amazed at how well that it's written. I couldn't even put it down. Sachar has created a strange, yet interesting and intriguing novel, filled with fun, curious characters, and strange twists and turns at every corner. Whether you are 8 or 80, you are sure to love this book. An absolute must-have.

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Summary: This is a book for fans of Jerry Spinelli or Gary Paulsen.
Review: There's action, good character development, and the sort of breathless, choppy prose that makes the story seem very real to middle schoolers. I thought immediately of Jerry Spinelli. Then, as I read to the climax of the tale, it seemed just as tense as any Gary Paulsen survival story. My nephew, only in fourth grade, loved it, and I loved it as I spent the morning reading it (I couldn't very well take his Christmas present with me when I left). I need it for my seventh and eighth grade students. They'll love it.