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Summary: erWiNz boOk rEvIeW
Review: ~The book I read was called ~{!0~}Holes~{!1~} by Louis Sachar. This book is about a boy name Stanley Yelnats. He was blamed for stealing a sneaker from the homeless shelter. He had a choice of going to jail or go to Camp Green Lake. He decided to go to Camp Green Lake, when he arrived to Camp Green Lake he didn~{!/~}t see no lake, all he seen was just holes and more holes. Stanley was put in group D with some other bad kids. In Camp~~ Green~~ Lake, they have to dig holes all day and if they find~~ something interesting then they get the rest of the day off. The names of the kids in his groups are Zero, x-ray, armpit, and some other kids.
When Stanley dug up this thing that had the initials ~{!0~}KB~{!1~}, but then he gave it to x-ray and x-ray gave it to the warden and x-ray got the rest of the day off. Zero ran away and hasn~{!/~}t returned for almost a week, so Stanley took the water truck and went out to look for him.~~ When~~ Stanley finally found him, zero was under this boat.~~ When they both returned to camp, they went back to the hole where Stanley dug up that thing and they found something else. They found this suitcase, after that the warden cam out with some other staffs of the camp. A yellow spotted lizard crawled on Stanley and zero but just in time a lawyer came and told them that Stanley was innocent, so Stanley was released from the camp and so was zero.
I think the author~{!/~}s message is trying~~ to~~ make a point that if you find something that~{!/~}s~~ not yours, you should leave it alone or just return it to the right person, but If you don~{!/~}t there will be consequences. Also the author is trying to say that if you don~{!/~}t like the person with, you have to deal with it because that~{!/~}s how life is.
From my opinion, I think this book is really great, because it teaches us a lesson of life and this book is really interesting. I like this book because its exciting and~~ it~{!/~}s a great book for everyone and yeah.~~~
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Summary: Camp Green Lake, Another name for Prison
Review: I wasn't quite sure about reading this book when I first started it, I thought it was kind of boring. It wasn't until I found out that Camp Green Lake was a dry place with holes everywhere, that I got into the book. This book is full of surprises, you never know what's going to happen. Louis Sachar did a great job on the characters. After reading this book I'm not going to be so judgmental about other books in the future. Especially ones by Louis Sachar.
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Summary: The Mistake about Stanley
Review: Holes
By: Louis Sachar
Reviewed by W. Horng
The book is about Stanley, a boy who got accused of stealing an Athlete's shoes. He was sent to Camp Green Lake to built the characters that he lacked. However, Stanley was innocent, he found the shoes, he didn't steal them. He went to Camp Green Lake anyways and made a lot of friends. Later on he ran away to find Zero, his friend that got banished by the camp. After that, Zero and Stanley came back to dig a treasure. Will they find it and encounter what is by it?
I like this book because of its adventures. Stanley and Zero ran away from Camp Green Lake because they wanted to kill them. Zero even said," Just leave me and go." to Stanley. However, they got saved by some wild onions that Stanley found at the mountains. Later on they went back to the camp to dig for a treasure and sure enough, they found it. They also found some yellow-spotted lizards, a poinsonous animal, around the treasure chest.
What I don't like about the book was the Warden. She was a very mean person. She even told Mr. Sir to shoot them and Mr.Sir said," The lizards or the kids?" Now that's really mean to me. However, they didn't want to disturb the yellow-spotted lizards so they didn't shoot.
My favorite part of the book is when Stanley dot skinnier and when he made a lot of friends such as Squid, Zero, and Armpit.( These are just the kid's nicknames.) At the first time when he met them, he was very shy. I remember when I first came to school, I was very, very shy. I know how that feels and it doesn't feel good.
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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: Sachar is a smashing author
Review: I had to read his book in class. I thought the book was going to be dull and boring. But it was so great. I enjoyed how all the characters changed. And I also enjoyed the irony he used. I liked the way the book was unpredictable. I came to amazon to search for more books like Holes or by the Louis Sachar. The lessons are so many and are important.
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Summary: Thought-provoking read for Junior High Students!
Review: Stanley's conflicts at a youth camp located in a desert area are many. Wrongly accused of a crime, he must deal with the authorities, nature, the environment, and his own abilities. He learns courage, hope and a "never give up" attitude. Great teaching for youth. Many discussions can evolve. Excellent teaching tool! Strongly recommended.
Evelyn Horan - teacher/counselor/author
Jeannie A Texas Frontier Girl, Books One and Two
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Summary: This book has no plot holes
Review: i love this book. i read it, and then reread it again and again. the book is about a boy named Stanley, whose grandfather a long time ago was robbed by kissin' kate barlow. and stanley's gandfather's father a long time ago had a curse put on him by a gypsy. now, in the present day, Stanley is at a camp where bad boys dig holes as a punishment, and by some cruel twist of luck, he meets the great grandson of the gyspy who cursed his family line, and also accidently got him stuck in the holes digging camp. io love how the book all clicks together at the end, and everything is explained, and nothing is left behind. its like puzzle: it all fits. always.
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Summary: Cursed by their Ancestors?
Review: WOW--Summer camp was never like this--fortunately! How could crooks get away with it all those years: false imprisonment, exploitation of child labor, psychological cruelty, even physical torture and destruction of state records? Poor Stanley--fat, a social pariah, falsely accused of the theft of some smelly sneakers. Then sentenced to 18 months of digging holes in a dried-up lakebed in the Texas boonies. Why, it's enough to make you want to spit! No one would choose a loser like Stanley Yelnats IV to be the kid to break the system. Or a gypsy curse. But how long can we blame our ancestors for present problems and our own failures? Can a jinx truly be inherited? Why are the kids Really up at 4:30 a.m. to dig holes 5 feet deep? Is more than just "character" being molded in the desert? But this social flop will undergo a physical and mental makeover at barren Camp Green Lake. So how can he make friends among the state's worst juvenile bullies and hoodlums? Stanley's misadventures at this correctional facility will keep readers fascinated predicting future events, pondering the past, as well as in stitches just trying to interpret the odd clues. You'll trip over multiple coincidences like discarded dirt mounds, but Sachar's dry wit and generous dialgoue alleviate literary thirst. This book is a delightful winner--for kids of all ages!
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Summary: Holes review
Review: Reading the book Holes by Louis Sacher reminded me just what a children's book should be. This is an interesting story from beginning to end that is loaded with descriptive writing, unique characters, and a suspensful plot that keeps the eyes of the reader glued to each page, fulfilling their curiosity about what is buried beneath Camp Green Lake. Although the text is intended for children, mature readers and adults will surely appreciate his impressive writing style that is quite clever and very entertaining.
Holes is a fictional story about a wrongfully accused juvenile delinquent named Stanley Yelnats (take a closer look at the last name) who is sent to a notorious correctional facility at Camp Green Lake, Texas. Camp Green Lake (which actually has no lake) is a hot desert wasteland that possesses unbearable conditions for its camp convicts. In order to rehabilitate Stanley and the rest of the delinquents, the warden has demanded that everyone at camp must dig a hole (5 feet deep and 5 feet wide) each day in the intense heat to shape their character. However, is the warden merely punishing these boys or is she having them search for something? This and many other mysteries are revealed as you continue reading the book and Sacher begins filling in the "holes" by making notable references to the past in his writing.
As the story progresses, Stanley (aka Caveman) is introduced to a manifold of characters, especially those crazy Group D boys who he resides with. X-ray, Zig-zag, Magnet, Zero, Armpit, and Squid are closely personified by their nicknames. Sacher's brilliant use of descriptive writing paints a colorful picture of each character in the minds of his readers.
My favorite part of Holes is how the author traces the plot of the story back to the past. Sacher often switches the time setting in the novel back to point out significant roles in Camp Green Lake's history. Here the reader reads a story within a story and learns about the legends of Kissin Kate Barlow, Sam the onion man, and Charles "Trout" Walker. These characters all contribute to the current problems found in Holes and all relate back in some way to Elya Yelnats-- Stanley's no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather!
Holes is the 1999 Newberry Award winner and certainly qualifies as a quality children's book that contains several themes such as friendship, destiny, and hope. I was especially attracted to the dark humor found throughout the novel and the references to the past kept me guessing how the mystery at Camp Green Lake would finally unfold. The writing kept me so engrossed in the story that I actually felt like I was a prisoner alongside Stanley digging holes at Camp Green Lake.
The suspense of the novel prevented me from ever putting the book down, especially when reading about those deadly yellow spotted lizards that send chills up my spine. This truly is an entertaining piece of literature that should be a part of every child's personal library. Holes is the type of book that encourages children to have fun reading while using their own creative imagination. I highly recommend this book to everyone out there who is in search of reading a good quality book!
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Summary: Holes
Review: Loius Sachar's "Holes," I think, is a "good book." The reason why I liked this book was because it was very easy and fast reading. I read this book in one sitting and was happy because I am not a big reader. This book is about Stanley Yelnats and his adventure at "Camp Green Lake." His adventure begins when he is framed for stealing Clyde Livingston's shoes. His punishment is to go to a corectional camp for boys which is at "Camp Green Lake." The camp's objective is to have the boys come to a understanding of being a better person in society by digging a five foot deep by five foot wide hole a day. The boys digging these holes believes that they are digging for discipline but in reality they are digging for the sake of the warden. The warden has them dig the holes because she knows that there is a buried treasure there. The book ends up with an interesting twist that you will have to read to find out. I liked this book a lot. Louis Sachar does a great job in keeping his readers interest. He does this by reflecting back to events that happen to Stanley's great great grandfathers life. This book is for readers ten years of age and up. The backflashes in the book do make it a harder read but you'll quite enjoy it.
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