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Summary: Great Book! One of my favorites!
Review: Louis Sachar tells the story of a boy whos sent to a boys dentention center where he and others his age have to dig holes everyday, all day. This book is magnificently written and one of my all time favorites.
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Summary: Holes is a very well-written book!
Review: Louis Sachar waas the author of a very well-written book. A kid named Stanley Yelnats was convicted of stealing a famous baseball player's shoes that were supposed to go to charity for money. My favorite part of the book was when they had to dig holes that were five feet deep and five feet long. I really recommend this book.
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Summary: Holes
Review: Louis Sachar writes a great book about a boy named stanley. When he has a troubled run in with the law. And was sentenced to a boot camp name Camp Green Lake. Where their punishment was digging holes that had certin dimesions. This book is geared toward a medium aged audeince, I would say 9-15. This book is trilling and is a great book to read to a class. I haven't meet one person that hasn't not liked it yet.I would suggest that anyone who can read this book. This book is also very suspenceful and will keep kids on the edge of their seats.
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Summary: reveiw for holes
Review: Louis Sachar wrote another has wrote a great book called Holes. Stanley Yelnats is one of the boys in his family that has a cure on them.
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Summary: Great story & well written!
Review: Louis Sachar's "Holes" is a story of a boy wrongly convicted of stealing shoes who is sent to a remote desert prison to dig for a rare treasure. Sachar's main character, Stanley Yelnats, is a teen whom the writer expouses learned ambition, fears, and talents of his childhood.Young teens will enjoy this book because it's never boring. The writer has a talent for keeping the storyline moving in many forms. The writer's character development is impressive and plot very addictive. This book is never boring. This books is a must buy for the teen (and who think they're teens) crowd. Easy to read and surprisingly very intriguing. A very good book!
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Summary: An All-Time Classic for All Ages
Review: Louis Sachar's book has won more awards than there are holes at Camp Green Lake, and that's quite a few. 'Holes' not only deserves each award, it deserves to be read by a wide audience spanning every imaginable age category. As the book opens, Stanley Yelnats is on his way to Camp Green Lake. It's a camp for boys, but Stanley's not very happy about it: It's actually a correctional facility in the Texas desert. "If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot son, it will turn him into a good boy," say the camp "counselors." Stanley's not convinced. Stanley IS convinced, however, that he's not bad, but cursed, as are all the men in the Yelnats family, dating back to his great-great grandfather. Unfortunately, Stanley sees no way out of the curse or Camp Green Lake. But there's something strange going on with all these holes the boys have to dig... 'Holes' is an incredible book with a simple, yet complex story construction. The lessons it teaches are universal, subtle, and tastefully handled. 'Holes' is not one of those books that will be in favor for a few years before it fades away into obscurity. This is a book that will one day be mentioned in any and all discussions on the very finest in young adult literature. An instant classic. 233 pages
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Summary: mr. felts book review
Review: Louis Sachar's Holes is a superior novel of stories that intermingle with each other. Stanley Yelnats, the protagonist, is a young boy who was sentenced to attend Camp Green Lake. Now this wasn't any camp, this was a detention facility for bad boys to build character by digging holes in the largest, dried out lake in Texas. Young Stanley is supposedly sent to Camp Green Lake because of his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great- grandfather" who has cursed all the men in the family. By digging these five-foot wide and five-foot deep holes, Stanley, or Caveman as the boys in cabin D call him, soon realizes that the boys are digging for more than just character, but what? Sachar incorporates a tale of friendship and irony into this well written book. The humor will keep the audience of all ages on the edge of their seat and they will not be able to put it down. I vastly recommend Holes by Louis Sachar to both juveniles and adults alike.
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Summary: Holes By Louis Sachar
Review: Louis Sachar's HOLES is not just another teenage comedy. Although when you read the first chapter or two, you may think it will be, it most certainly is not.
Stanley Yelnats or "Caveman" is caught with a pair of stolen sneakers. He is arrested, tried, and sent to a prison camp. At the camp, they have the kids dig holes to "build character". Since Stanley never had the chance to go to any camp, he expects it to be fun. Right away he meets the warden and thinks she is nice, even if the other guys in his tent say she's mean.
X-Ray is a loud-mouth who runs the tent Stanley is in. Zero is quiet and becomes Stanley's friend. Because Zero is a fast digger, he and Stanley make a deal that Zero will dig Stanley's holes if Stanley teaches him to read and write. Stanley is always battling himself because some of the things he must do, like give away the chance to take a break all day from digging, he doesn't approve of, but he does it anyways.
I really enjoy the characters but, because there are so many, and some seem the same, it's difficult to keep track fo them. This is a fast read and very enjoyable. A funfilled book like this one is fun for all ages. Such a realistic fictionas this will draw you in from cover to cover.
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Summary: Holes: An Instant Classic
Review: Louis Sachar's Holes is the story of Stanley Yelnats. Stanley is a boy who is sent to a detention camp for a crime he didn't commit. He quickly learns that Camp Greenlake is not your normal summer camp. Stanley and his fellow campers are forced to dig holes everyday to better their characters. He quickly realizes there is more to the digging than redemption. I think that children can relate to Stanley. He is a boy with a low self esteem who thinks his life is doomed for failure. "He didn't have any friends at home. He was overweight and the kids often teased him about his size." Many readers can relate to feeling bad about themselves. Holes is a book that really pulls you in. It weaves a story of the past and the present. It really leaves you on the edge of the seat wanting to know how the stories tie together. I found myself dying to know what the boys were really digging for. I really found myself believing in the story and wanting to know more. Where Zero and Stanley really going to make it out safely? My favorite part of the book was the change that Stanley went through. My favorite line would be, "While Mrs. Bell, Stanley's former math teacher, might want to know the percentage change in Stanley's weight, the reader probably cares more about the change in Stanley's character and self-confidence. But those changes are subtle and hard to measure. There is no simple answer". I found it really inspiring how Stanley used his experience at Camp Greenlake and learned to believe in himself. Holes is another prime example of Louis Sachar's creative and imaginative mind. It is an exciting and humorous tale that leaves you wanting more.
I think that this would be a great book for children in 4th grade or older. This book could be used in the classroom for read aloud or even silent sustained reading. This would be a good book to practice predicting and discussing what will happen next. It could also be used to talk about the desert climate that the boys are forced to dig in. The story of Kissin' Kate Barlow could relate to a discussion about tall tales. I think that Holes is a great book for people of any age to read. It would be a perfect addition to any classroom library.
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Summary: Life Lessons
Review: Louis Sachar's Newbery Medal-winning book is full of life lessons, all of which come full circle and tie together neatly at the novel's end. Young readers will enjoy looking for clues in the flashbacks to the ancestors of Stanley Yelnats and his fellow "camper" Zero. And even adults will find themselves gasping when the Warden's flashlight shines near the book's end. The novel is filled with lessons about friendship, loyalty, honesty, racism, and family. It leaves readers looking at the world differently, wondering what secrets lie buried in their own backyards.
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