Holes

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Summary: Holes
Review: In Holes a boy named Stanley Yelnats gets hit in the head with a famous baseball player's shoes. He finds himself at Camp Green Lake. He meets the other campers. Every day each boy has to dig a hole five feet deep and five feet wide. Everyone tells him their digging for character but Stanley thinks their digging for something else.Holes is great!

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Summary: Holes the best book I've ever read
Review: In Holes it tells about this camp called Camp Green Lake with a kid named Stanley Yelnats who gets in trouble because when a kid he meets in camp called zero throws shoes at him Stanley gets caught with the shoes only he thinks he's innocent. He has to dig holes 5 feet deep and 5 feet wide. While he's at camp he makes some new friends with weird nick names like: Zero, Squid, etc. One day Zero runs away and Stanly goes after him and finds him in a tunnel under a boat with some liquid in bottles they leave to go to this moutain that Stanley saw earlier in the book,and when they got there Zero gets a major stomache ache. Stanley looks to find water near where they are then gives Zero some of it. Zero and Stanley became good friends and Zero gets a new family.

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Summary: A New Dickens
Review: In Holes, Sachar has created an initially dark tale with a taciturn protaganist who observes and becomes the unfolding of destiny, the unwinding of curse, the redemption that comes of unprejudiced love for your fellow human. It is many tales interwoven like the better Dickens, almost celtic in its interlacing of story-lines that as they converge across time create epiphanies for the reader, stairsteps of redemption. You will not find the sweet simple reversals of most young adult fiction, but a deep awareness that scars remain, that grudges can hold for generations, and that evil is only combatted by sticking close to your friends and your convictions. It is not luck or fate or fortune -- in spite of the curse which drives the story -- that produces the redemption, but instead the strength that Stanley gains through the trial, and his putting it to the use of saving a life.

My son of 10 years has been asking me to read this book for six months or so. He said it was the best book he had ever read. I have always said yes someday, I am busy, etc. I have two degrees in literature and run a publishing company. I have little desire to read the typical young adult novel driven by bathroom lingo and who is popular and so forth. But recently he was sick and wanted me to lay down with him in the evening while he read so I reached over and picked up Holes. He was two hours sound asleep and I was still reading.

This book holds well in my estimation with the great classics of destiny fulfilled: The Phantom Tollbooth, David Copperfield, Tristram Shandy, Esther, and Harold and the Purple Crayon.

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Summary: Holes
Review: In Louis Sachar's humorous novel, Holes, an unpopular overweight boy, Stanley Yelnates is accused of a crime he did not commit. He brought home a pair of shoes that he thought would help his dad with and invention; the shoes were missing from a charity. Little did he know that the shoes were famous and the rewards and trouble they would bring him. He is sent to a juvenile delinquent camp, Camp Green Lake, where there is no lake and he has to dig holes in the hot sun to build character. After a grueling while at camp, Stanley accidentally digs up an adventure. Stanley tries to find the truth in this suspenseful novel of humor and justice.

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Summary: best book i ever read
Review: In my 5th grade class we started reading the book Holes. I am not a book lover but when I finished this book my comment to my mom was "best book I ever read".

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Summary: What`s In The HOLES ?
Review: In my class I did a report on the book Holes. I thought this book was very exciting and interesting. I enjoyed it very much. The book Holes was a good book. If you saw the movie then you should also read the book because there are differences between the book and the movie. Its about a kid whose family is cursed and was sent to a boot camp for bad kids where they had to dig holes five feet deep and five feet wide. Why do they have to dig holes every day? Mr. Sir the camp counselor says to build character. Do you think that's why they have to dig holes?

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Summary: It is a good book for adults and kids
Review: In my English class my teacher Mrs.Humanick told us for half the year we are going to read a book called "Holes". In my mind I thought Holes was going to be a stupid book. But when I read it I really enjoy it. The book is for kids but I think adults will enjoy this book too. You should go see the movie too because it is very good. Believe when you see it you are not going to waste your money to see it. No wonder this book got the New Berry Medal Award. I really enjoy this book and I think you should but this book and read it.

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Summary: Holes
Review: In my opinion Holes was a good book. I wanted to watch the movie but I am glad I got to read the book. The book was good because it used very descriptive words and it allowed you to visualize the places they were at. There were places that I could see what Stanley could see. I would recommend this book anyone who would consider reading it because I really enjoyed this piece of reading material. The person who wrote this book had a good idea of what would keep his readers interested in the story. I couldn't wait until we reached the end of the book so I could find out what was going to happen. At the end of the story I didn't expect that Stanley was going to....... Don't tell me you thought I was going to tell you what really happened, did you??

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Summary: Holes
Review: In my opinion I think Holes was an excellant book. I don't like to read most books because I don't enjoy them but Holes was one of those books I couldn't put down. I just couldn't wait to find out what was going to happen next. I recommend this book to anyone of any age. Holes was a great book, I suggest you should start reading this book! It will make your day.

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Summary: Comedy, Adventure, and Great webs of suspense
Review: In my opinion Sachar earned the title of a master story-teller after I read this book. He weaves together different storys into one book then brings them all together at the end for a stunning finish. His character portrayal is amazing.

Stanley Yelnats gets sent to Camp Green Lake Detention Center after being arrested for having some old shoes he found. The shoes he found just happened to belong to a famous baseball player. At Camp Green Lake there is no Lake just a dried up pit were the boys made to dig holes that are Round and are 5 feet deep and 5 Feet across. Soon Stanley finds out that they not diging holes just for character but the Warren of the camp is looking for something. But what?

Read the book and be swept off you feet to Camp Green Lake where comedy, mystery and suspense are waiting around every hole.