Holes

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Summary: A review for holes
Review: Stanley Yelnats has a series of bad things happening in his life. He's overweight, his apartment always smells like shoes, and people make fun of him. This is because he has a curse in his family. A professional athlete's shoes fall on his head. Stanley was accused of stealing. In court he had a choice of going to jail or going to Camp Green Lake. At camp he is required to dig 1 hole a day 5 feet deep and 5 feet wide. He met a boy named Zero there that has something to do with the curse in his family.

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Summary: Holes
Review: Stanley Yelnats has been unjustly accused of stealing a pair of baseball cleats. Now he must choose between going to prison or, the obvious choice, going to Camp Green Lake. He is going to Camp Green Lake. He and the other campers are told that are building character as they are digging physically exhausting holes. It seems, however, that the warden is having the boys do this backbreaking task to find what she believes is a treasure in the never-ending desert.
Along with the story of Stanley, we are told the story of the past-time kissing bandit, Kate Barlow, whom harassed people around the same location of what is now Camp Green Lake.
This book creatively weaves two stories together which at first can leave a person in a pleasant state of confusion, but makes the reader thrive for an understanding of what is going on, and consequently only leaves the reader the choice of not putting the book down and continuing the reading. As the past is woven in with the present, then suddenly the holes of the story start to fill. This leaves the reader smiling at the sheer intelligence and creativity with which this puzzle of a book was put together. This book is among the few that will give everyone a good read and let them enjoy themselves.

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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: Would you want to dig holes all day long?
Review: Stanley Yelnats has come to a "bad boy" camp where the boys spend the day digging holes, but when his friend Zero runs away, and Stanley starts out to find him, it is a whole nother story. Will they get bitten by the deadly yellow spotted lizard? Will they find "the big thumb"? Will they perish from dehydration? Read this fantastic book and find out just what Stanley and Zero are going to do.

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Summary: The best book by Louis Sachar
Review: Stanley Yelnats has to go to Camp Green Lake. He thinks it's Camp Fun and Games. Camp Green Lake is a juvinille detention camp
and they need to dig holes 5 feet deep and 5 feet wide. Stanley
never realizes that he's looking for something, but when he does find something things go really bazar at camp. He climbs a mountain with his best friend Zero while running away from camp.
When they arrive at the top of the mountain they find onions, onions, and more onions. When they returned to camp the dug to find Kate Barlows suitcase full of treasure. I really think many people should read HOLES.

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Summary: The holes of green lake
Review: Stanley Yelnats is a boy
that was framed. He had a choice
of going to jail or going to camp
green lake. Stanley was
poor so he had never been to a camp
before so he wanted
to go to the lake. When he got to
\ the lake he didn't see
a lake he didn't even see water all
he saw was a desert
with a lot of holes. When he got
their Mr. sir told him
everyday he had to dig a hole 5ft
deep and 5ft wide.

The book holes is
very exiting with a lot of
action. I really like how Sachar
Louis put a little bit
of violence in the book. I
also like how Stanley
stands up fore himself. I had no idea
that the ending
would be that surprising. The only
thing that I don't
like is that there's no pictures.

The lesson in the story that
life is unfair.
when Stanley got framed he tried to
tell the judge
he didn't do anything. I
want to find out why Mr. Louis
wrote this book.

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Summary: existentialism for kids ?
Review: Stanley Yelnats is a boy who is being punished as a result of the gypsy curse laid on his
"no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather." He's sent to Camp Green Lake for
stealing a pair of sneakers, though he claims they actually fell at his feet from out of the sky. Stanley
is innocent enough to think that Camp will be interesting, but soon finds himself digging five by five
foot holes in a blazing sun. He's surrounded by a gang of unpleasant fellow inmates with colorful
nicknames and the whole place is overseen by a Warden who paints her nails with rattlesnake venom.
Intertwined with Stanley's story is that of his pig-thieving forbear and Kate Barlow, the Kissing
Bandit.

Sachar has said his story was influenced by The Princess Bride, which is evident in the wordplay and
in a certain fairy tale quality. But where Princess Bride drew on everything from Pirate movies to
Sword and Sorcery pulps, and followed conventional heroic adventure format, Sachar's plot is drawn
more from American tall tales, like Pecos Bill, and, strangely enough for a children's book, such
movies as Cool Hand Luke and such existentialist dilemmas as The Myth of Sisyphus. Fate and doom
seem to loom over the Yelnats family generally and Stanley in particular, though by story's end justice
has been meted out, rather suddenly, to all concerned.

The reviews I've read have been uniformly favorable, even ecstatic, with many reviewers suggesting
that even adults will enjoy the book. But I didn't like it all that much. If there's anything sillier than
the idea that existence consists of mere drudgery (Existentialism) it would be that the drudgery is
followed, arbitrarily, by a balancing of the cosmic scales. Personally, I find the view that life is
absurd to be morally corrosive and I'd just as soon not have my kids fall prey to such beliefs. Of
course, I'm a crotchety old man; this'll probably be their favorite book.

GRADE : C-

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Summary: Holes October, 16
Review: Stanley Yelnats is a boy who went to Camp Green Lake because he was accused of stealing shoes donated for poor childred. Camp Green Lake is a camp for bad boys. They have to dig a hole in the solid ground every day. The hole must be 5ft. in every direction. Stanly has many adventures. If you like adventurous books you will have a wonderful time reading this book. I like it because it's exiting and interesting.

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Summary: how to reform a misguided youth
Review: Stanley Yelnats is a delinquent youth who is in need of serious reform, or so we are lead to believe. Holes, a young adult novel by Louis Sachar, is an entertaining story full of plot twists and humor. Living up to the curse brought on his family by his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather," Stanley is wrongfully accused of stealing a very important pair of shoes. Instead of going to jail Stanley opts to serve his time at Camp Greenlake, a boys camp for boys in need of reform. The theory behind Camp Greenlake is this "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." Stalney soon Figures out that the boys of Camp Greenlake are digging not to be reformed but to find something.
Louis Sachar, takes several wonderful characters and creates a story that is both exciting and mysterious. Along with the story of Stanley, Sachar tells the story behind the legend of Stanley's "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather," as well as the history of camp Greenlake. The most interesting thing about this book is the way in which these three stories all work together to compliment and build on one another. The mystery of the story comes as you learn about the intricate ways that Stanley is related to not only the camp it's self but also some of his fellow campers.
Holes is an amazingly crafted story that will take the reader on an exciting adventure into the life of a young man for whom nothing seems to go right.

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Summary: An awesome book about growing up against all odds.
Review: Stanley Yelnats is a fantastic new anti-hero for our times. This is an excellent circular storyline that invloves the reader from the get-go! If you like adventure and stories about under dogs who come out okay at the end, you must read Holes.