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Summary: A clever, interesting, well written book
Review: For any Louis Sachar fans, you will love this book. For anyone else, you will love this book. ( and I mean that). Though this book deals with different issues than most of Sachar's books, it is still clever, and funny just like his others. This book deals with an innocent boy charged of stealing a pair of shoes who goes to "Camp Green Lake" where he is required daily to dig an enormous hole. I'm not going to tell what happens, but basically this book is great and I would recommend it to anyone.
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Summary: The Best Book of All Time
Review: From the first word to the last, i found myself unable to put down Holes. I read the whole thing in one night! Knowing myself, thats pretty fast. I recomend this book to anyone who knows how to read.
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Summary: A great book for children!
Review: From the moment I began reading Holes I was hooked. Stanley Yelnats, the protagonist of this story, is quite a creative individual. I was rooting for Stan from the beginning of the book until the very end. He is a young boy that just does not have much luck with anything and really needs a break. Unfortunately, he never seems to get one. All of this bad luck is believed to have started when a gypsy put a curse on Stan's no-good-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great grandfather for doing something he shouldn't have done. Poor Stan ends up getting sent to Camp Green Lake, a camp for juvenile delinquents, for something that he did not do. At this camp he must dig holes and lots of them as a way of reform. It is here where the story takes off. Stan meets a boy named Hector, AKA Zero, at camp. The pair become friends because they have many similarities. Neither boy seems to fit in anywhere and they take solace in one another. Unbeknownst to Stan, Zero has a connection to his no-good-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great grandfather. The link between the boys is what makes this story so interesting and really holds the readers attention.This is an excellent book that is full of twists and turns from past events that are connected to present events. It really makes you think about what you just read. The colorful details given to describe the characters that Stan meets at Camp Green Lake makes you feel like you really know who they are. Friendship becomes an ongoing theme in the book after Stan and Hector meet, and the two underdogs come out on top at the end. Children of all ages will love this book. With all the irony, suspense, and silliness that takes place, it is even a fun book for an adult to read. This is definitely a comical, feel-good book that keeps you on the edge of your seat and feels like a roller coaster ride. You never know which way the story is going to go so hang on and enjoy the ride!
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Summary: If I could I would rate this book with platinum stars....
Review: From the moment I read the first chapter I was in love. This book shares so many different cultures and diversity. Its deals with cureses to discrimantion to love to hate to so many things. Its crazy because my mom wacthes the DVD at home every single night. The good thing about this book it cacthes everyones eyes, my little brothers who hate to read has read this book over and over again......
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Summary: "Holes ' Helps Children Dig Into Reading
Review: From the perspective of a prospective teacher, I think that this book is an excellent tool to use to get students enthusiastic about reading. "Holes" is full of literary merit. Louis Sachar uses a very interesting point-of-view for this story. The reader feels drawn into the action. One example of this is from the beginning of the novel: "If you get bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard, you might as well go into the shade of the oak trees and lie in the hammock. There is nothing anyone can do to you anymore." The reader feels as if the author is talking directly to him or her. Another aspect of literary merit is that there is a very good major dramatic question. The reader really wants to know if Stanley is going to be able to break his family's curse. It is very hard to put the book down until this question is answered. Louis Sachar also uses understatement very well. He allows the reader to fill in the missing pieces at the end of the story. He writes, "This is pretty much the end of the story. The reader probably still has some questions, but unfortunately, from here on in, the answers tend to be long and tedious." Louis Sachar also uses appropriate pacing in this novel. He uses flashback very well to tell not only Stanley's story but also the stories of Stanley's great-great-grandfather and Kissin' Kate Barlow. These flashbacks give the reader more insight into the Yelnats curse and makes the reader care more deeply about the characters. I also belive that the characters and setting in the book are unique and believable. The setting takes place in a camp. Most readers can identify with going to camp at some point in their life. However, the reader learns that this is a very different type of camp. Also, the reader really comes to care about the characters. The characters are easy to identify with. I found myself thinking of the worst day I ever had and thought that was nothing compared to what Stanley was going through. Overall, this is a wonderful book to use to get students to read. However, I would not suggest this book for younger children. Parts of the book can get scary and the book is a bit harder for younger children to read. I would suggest this book for fifth grade or older. This is a book that can not only be enjoyed by children but by adults as well. This book can be very useful in the classroom. It is an excellent book to use to have the children predict what is going to happen next. It can also be used to help children use context clues to read between the lines. I highly recommend this book to teachers, parents, and children interested in experiencing a unique adventure into the world of reading!
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Summary: More magic from Louis Sachar
Review: From the writer of the Wayside School series, Holes is the story of a boy wrongly accused and sent to dig holes in the middle of nowhere. Picturing a lake with cabins and fun activities, Stanley Yelnats IV gets off the bus after a long drive to see what once used to be a lake and thousands of Holes.Louis Sachar connects two friends from the past and present from the same families in this well-written story. HAve to read a book for summer reading or something else, read this fabulous book.
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Summary: Holes Review
Review: Getting accused for something that you didn't do, having no friends, how could life get any worse? Well, for Stanley Yelnats'it can't. He gets accused for stealing a famous baseball players shoes, (which really did just happen to fall out of the sky.) He gets a choice of jail or Camp Green Lake. Stanley has never been to camp before, and never would have thought of one being like Camp Green Lake. This camp is for bad boys, who go there to build up character in them, that is what it is like in the book Holes by Lois Sachar.
When Stanley gets to camp he finds out that every day, in the bright sun, on a dried up lake they have to dig holes. Holes that are exactly five feet deep and five feet wide, the exact length of the boys shovels. After some time Stanley starts to think that the boys aren't just there to build up character in them, but he thinks that the warden is looking for something. What could someone be looking for in the middle of a dried up lake? That is the question that keeps ringing in his mine.
Through out the book Lois Sachar hooks the reader in on every page. Also at the end of every chapter there is a cliffhanger that makes the reader want to read until they have finished the book. With the way that the author writes, he gives you clear and vivid images, so that you can see what is happening and feel like you are there with the characters. Feeling this way you get to be there with the characters as they go on their adventures and come upon their dangerous encounters.
Most of Stanley's life through the book is spent digging holes and trying to find out what the warden is looking for. With many adventures and dangerous encounters along the way, can Stanley solve his mystery?
As a sixth grader from New York, I thought this book was exciting to read, it hooked you in, and it took you on adventures. I think readers from the ages 9-13 will love this book! On a scale from one to ten, I would give it a ten. Also if there were ten good books and I had to pick one; this would be the book! It was interesting, fun to read, and at the end of the book it gives you a cliffhanger that you have to decode yourself. Read the book to find out if Stanley decodes his cliffhanger!
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Summary: an adult who loved the book
Review: Good, quick read. Great story. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Holes
Review: Grades 3 and up. Holes is a great book about an unlucky kid named Stanley. He is unlucky because he gets sent to a terrible camp, called Camp Green Lake, for something he didn't do. At this punishment camp, the kids who get sent there have to dig holes five feet deep and five feet wide each day. In the story, Louis Sachar also provides information about the lake before it dried up and the city around it. This information helps Stanley and his friend, Zero, eventually escape from the camp. Holes won the John Newbery Medal. and that was a grand decision. If you read Holes, I bet you will love it just as I did! Sachar has also written other great books such as the Wayside School series and There's A Boy In the Girls' Bathroom. Louis Sachar is a great author and Holes is a perfect example of his talent.
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Summary: captures readers from 9 to 61
Review: Grandpa, that's me, bought this book for my 9 year old Grandson. I read it first, then my wife, then my Grandson & finally his mother. We all thought it was great and enjoyed an intergenerational discussion of it.
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