Holes

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Summary: Holes
Review: Camp Green lake wasn't what Stanely Yelnats thought it would be when he stepped off the bus. In fact, Camo Green Lake was one of the toughest obstacles he would have to overcome. "You want to run away?" Mr. Sir asked Stanley. Louis Sachar's book "Holes" keeps you wondering what will happen next, as you fill in the puzzle pieces of Sanley's past. Sachar brillantly combines present situaions with flashbacks to keep the reader engrossed.

At Camp Green Lake Stanely meets up with Zero, a camper who connects Stanley's past and his present. Every day, in the blistering heat, Stanley and Zero have to dig a hole in the dry bed of Camp Green lake that is five feet deep and five feet wide. Stanley feels sorry for Zero because everyone picks on him. Sacher brings these two characters together by setting up a way for them to bond: Stanley teaches Zero to read and write, and Zero digs part of Stanley's hole. At first it was just a trade off. But Sacher is able to make Zero the key to Stanley's mystery

"Holes" sucks you in and won't let you out. It's almost like you're digging a hole with Stanley and filling in the puzzle pieces with him. Every chapter ends with a cliffhanger, making you want to read more. Sacher's characters are so real that you feel like you know them. You develop an attachment to the characters becasue you understand them so well. Sachar descibes the characters' history, feelings, and the way they act in a way that is belivable. "Holes" is the work of a master storyteller.

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Summary: Camp Green Lake
Review: Camp Green Lake

Stanley went to Camp Green Lake and met a lot of friends. The camp has children in it who have done something bad. They have to dig holes. Everyone gave him a nickname and that was Caveman. I recommend this book because it has a lot of information. I?m excited to read more of Louis Sachar's books.

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Summary: This was one of the best books i've ever read
Review: Camp Greenlake has a lot of history

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Summary: Holes
Review: Can you take an innocent child accused of stealing and change his character? The warden seems to believe so. At Camp Green Lake the warden lets on that digging holes five feet deep and five feet wide will ulternate character. But is that what she is really trying to do? Was Stanley Yelnats really cursed from his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather?"

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Summary: The Hole" Digger"
Review: Can you turn a bad boy into a good boy by digging a hole? Have you ever wanted to dig a hole? I HAVE.HOLES was a very,very good book.My favorite part was when they talked about NO GOOD DIRTY ROTTEN PIG STEALING GREAT GREAT GRANDFATHER on pg.7.Stanley was sent to "CAMP GREEN LAKE"beacuse people think that he stole a shoebut he dident.He met the same people at CAMP GREEN LAKE.

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Summary: I take a look at Holes
Review: Carolyn Steinmetz
Book review for Holes

Louis Sachur is a very gifted writer. He has written many other great books in the past, but Holes is the best!
It all starts with Stanley Yelnats, Stanley and his family is under a curse, thanks to his no - good - dirty - rotten - pig stealing - great -great grandfather.
Stanley is a big kid so not many people like him. Stanley usually keeps his feelings to him self, and just tries to ignore the bullies, but it is hard to ignore them when they dump your notebook in the toilet. Stanley has always seemed to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Stanley has no friends until he goes to Camp Green Lake. There he meets Zero, Zigzag, Armpit, and many more boys. There is no camp at Camp Green Lake but there are a lot of Holes and deadly yellow spotted lizards. There use to be a lake there, but now the weather is hot and dry all the time! Camp Green Lake is a camp for bad boys, but Stanley is not a bad boy, he was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. At Camp Green Lake you have to dig a hole every that is five feet in all directions. They dig holes to build character or are they digging holes for another reason? That is what Stanley and Zero would like to know!
In this book Stanley and Zero try to solve the mystery of Camp Green Lake. Why are they digging holes? In the end it all comes together for Stanley and Zero .To find out for yourself you will have to read the book Holes.
I think this book is wonderful. It dazzled me and it won a Newbery Medal. Holes is now being made into a movie, witch is also great. The New York Times book review says ,"A smart jigsaw puzzle of a novel." Publisher Weekly says," Larger -than- life." I say," This is the book you will never get tiered of."

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Summary: HOLES!
Review: Caught by the police for a crime he didn't commit, Stanley Yelnats is given the choice between prison, and a horror camp. Well what would any sane person do? Arriving at a desert scarred with craters, Stanley realizes that he has willingly submitted to life in hell. What will happen to our husky hero? Find out in the next episode of holes!

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Summary: Great Book
Review: Children both young and old will like Holes. I loved the blend of humor, and mystery. I have read alot of books but Holes is up there in the top 5, once you pick it up you never want to put it down .Take it from me, I spent 5 hours laying on a couch.

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Summary: Sachar weaves a spell-binding page turner
Review: Cleverly tieing past to present, Sachar makes it easy to believe we can all overcome whatever demons we have in our past, whatever limitations have been imposed (self or otherwise) upon us, to find the proverbial treasure. Sachar's greatest talent as a writer is to make the unbelievable believable, to transcend the vulgarities of life in the most vulgar circumstances imaginable.

In Stanley Yelnats, he has created a character at once pathetic and heroic; kind of an optimistic fatalist. Through a series of catastrophic events, Stanley eventually finds a physical treasure, yes, but also treasures of another sort that we all deeply yearn for: true catharsis, character and frienndship.

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Summary: A newfound appreciation for onions ... if only!
Review: Convicted of a crime he didn't commit ...

That's probably not the most original way for an author to come up with a theme for his story, but everything else about this novel is pretty much an onion-tainted breath of fresh air.

The protagonist, an amiable everyloser improbably named Stanley Yelnats experiences chronic bad luck brought on by a family curse. In this case, a particularly bad wave of ill fate causes him to be sent to a boys work camp where the daily labor focuses on the bizarre task of hole digging. We're not talking ditches here, just holes. Mysterious and sadistic figures abound at the also improbably named Camp Green Lake, and nothing is quite as it seems, but it looks like Stanley is going to be too tired to care either way.

Still, a character's got to grow, and Louis Sachar has got to take credit for economically using every piece of this novel to create a story that is exciting, entertaining, and thought-provoking. A mini-family saga, Sachar doesn't shy away from serious issues, including a skeptical look at the youth penal system, along with some peeks at racial politics, both contemporary and nineteenth-century style. The wrap-up at the end seems hastily thrown-together, but it also throws the reader a nice lyrical bone.