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Summary: The Holes of Camp Green Lake
Review: This one of the greatest and most mysterious books I've ever read. The main character, Stanley Yelnats, is accused of a crime (stealing a baseball player's shoe's) he didn't commit, and he is sent to a dried up lake called Camp Green Lake (it's a boy's detention center)as punishment. The boys that are at Camp Green Lake must wake up every morning and wake up at 4:30 a.m., and the boys have to dig a hole that is 5 feet deep and 5 feet wide, even on weekends and holidays! The Warden says that digging holes builds character, but Caveman (Stanley), Theodore (Armpit), Ricky (Zig Zag), X-Ray, Squid, and Hector Zeroni (Zero) aren't digging to build character, the Warden is looking for something. I liked the book because it was so emmotional, exciting, and adventurous. If you are in 4th grade or higher, you will enjoy this book.
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Summary: Chad from Indiana
Review: This story is a story that I would reccomend to people ages 9to 99, because it is funny and easy to understand. It is also a verypage turning book. A person that is 9 years old would like it as muchas a person that is 99 years old.I give this book a thumbs up.
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Summary: It's suspensful!
Review: This story is about a boy who is accused of steeling some expensive shoes that are donated to a charity by a famous basketball player to make money for the kids.His sentence is to go to this camp in which they are forced to dig a hole,6 feet wide and 6 feet deep, every day.When he befriends a boy named Zero, they soon discover that there's more to this camp than the flat desert around them;there's a strange secret underneath the soil and their gonna find out. This book is a good book because it is suspenseful and make's you seem like your in the book living every word of the book.
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Summary: The great story about holes
Review: This story is about a camp called "The Green Lake Camp". The Green Lake Camp is a Camp where juvenile Delinquent are sent. "Green Lake Camp use to be a great lake in Texas" but they drained it out and make it a Juvenile detention. Green lake camp became a dry, flat sunburned wasteland. A boy named Stanley Yelnats is framed of stealing a important pair of shoes. He was sent to Green Lake camp. When he was sent he expected to see a lake but all he saw was a hot and dry land. Stanley's family always had bad luck so they could not get him out. The Green Lake Camp made the kids there dig holes five feet deep by five feet wide, they even had to dig on weekends. They had to dig their hole all day under the sun. What Stanley and the rest of the boys don't know is that the warden isn't just building character, she's looking for the lost buried treasure of outlaw. I like this story because it is full of great characters with strong voices, exciting, funny scenes and enough twists and turns.
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Summary: HOLES BY BOBBY AND NATHAN
Review: THIS STORY IS ABOUT A KID WHOSE NAME IS STANLEY. HE IS CURSED, AND THEN HE GOES TO CAMP AND MEET'S A FRIEND NAMED ZERO. THEY BECOME FRIENDS, AND STANLEY TEACHES ZERO HOW TO READ. ZERO IS HOMELESS. THEN THEY RUN AWAY FROM CAMP! THEY ARE SEARCHING FOR A MOUNTAIN NAMED THE BIG THUMB THAT TIES IN WITH THEIR PAST. THEIR ANCESTOR BURIED TREASURE AT CAMPGREEN LAKE, CAUSING IT TO DRY UP.NOW THE WARRDEN AT CAMP GREEN LAKE IS MAKING THE KIDS DIG FOR IT. SHE TELLS THEM THEY ARE DIGGING FOR CHARACTER, BUT THEY ARE REALLY DIGGING FOR THE TREASURE.
WERE THE EVENTS IN THIS NOVEL BELIEVABLE? WAS GREEN LAKE A REAL PLACE? I BELIEVE IT COULD BE. GREEN LAKE IS A BOOT CAMP. IT IS A DRY PLACE. EVERY DAY THEY DIG HOLES FOR CHARACTER, BUT REALLY THE WARREN IS A REALITVE TO KISSING KATE BARLOW. SO THE KIDS ARN'T DIGING FOR CHARACTER, BUT THEY ARE DIGING FOR THE TREASURE. THESE EVENTS COULD HAVE REALLY HAPPENED.
I THINK THIS IS A GOOD BOOK BECAUSE IT WAS ADVENTURES. IF YOU LIKE THESE KINDS OF BOOKS, GIVE IT A TRY!
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Summary: A Wonderful Jigsaw Puzzle
Review: This story is definitely Sacher's best. It tells the fun but deep story of a boy named Stanley Yelnats (spelt the same frontwards as backwards) who goes to a correctional camp, blamed for something he didn't do. It's all because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. You see, the Yelnats are cursed to be unlucky because a Yelnat slighted a fortune teller a century before. The story goes from this young man to Stanley at Camp Green Lake to the town of Green Lake before the drought, gradually filling in the hole of the story's many questions. At the end, it's a perfect jigsaw puzzle. It is immensely satisfying, and deserves its Newberry Medal. It's beautifully written, not long and pretentious or short and abrupt. You don't actually notice the diction much; you just see what Sachar is describing. Camp Green Lake is my favourite part, because the other boys are such great characters: there's an established hierarchy, a reject named Zero whom Stanley befriends (and who becomes a key in lifting the curse on the Yelnats), and each boy has a nickname. The acceptance Stanley feels when they nickname him also is so lifelike. These children behave the way most tough kids act, and you'll remember them months after you first read HOLES.
All in all, it's a terrific book for anyone - part mystery, part romance, part adventure, part humour, part fantasy and part realism. Read it - you'll be glad you did.
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Summary: Louis Sachar's BEST book ever
Review: This story is full of catches.You'll want to read more after every chapter. At Camp Green Lake, you would think that it is a camp, with a lake that is green. WELL it's not!!! It's a Juvenile Detention Facility, with dried up land, that used to be a lake. It has identical holes all around it. In Stanley Yelnats' case, it's not easy to build a 5 feet deep 5 feet across hole everyday. Just read and find out the suspense in this awsome book!!!
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Summary: The Holes Review
Review: This story is really great. I liked how Sachar kept hitting me with questions so I would keep reading. In this book, there are a lot of holes--- that is a big thing to know. The writer always switched into 3 worlds to keep you guessing. All three worlds are connected and confusing. At the ending, there are so many questions to be answered, but guess what? There are not many answers.
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Summary: Excellent Multicultural Story
Review: This story is so excellent. The reader really gets to understand and sympathise with Stanley. There is actually a double story that all comes together in the end. This multicultural book is a "must read" for young adults and adults.
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Summary: A great summer read for youngsters!
Review: This story puts an emphasis on continuity. All through the book, you will realize that most things that the author lingers on or describes have to do with something later on. Although the book starts out with the main character, Stanley Yelnats IV, the story really begins when a gypsy woman puts a curse on Elya Yelnats. Elya goes to America, gets married, and has a son named Stanley. (Yelnats spelled backwards) Stanley I made a fortune in the stock market, but then lost it all when the Wild West outlaw Kissin' Kate Barlow robbed him in the deserts of Texas. Through luck (or fate), he survived by "taking refuge on God's thumb," a phrase which has perplexed his family for years.
Fast forward to today.
One day, Stanley IV is walking home from school, going under a highway overpass. When he gets to the other side, a pair of shoes fall from the sky and hit him on the head. Suddenly, a police car pulls up, and he's arrested for stealing the shoes, which belong to a famous baseball player. The judge finds him guilty of a crime he didn't commit (the curse again), and gives him two options: jail, or Camp Green Lake, a reformatory for "bad boys." The story soars from there.
As you read the book, you'll notice the cleverly woven plot created by the author. Another thing the author did well is pass time. If there is a part in the book where Stanley works for hours, a sudden flashback will occur, entertaining you and helping pass the time while Stanley labors.
The only unfortunate thing about this book is it is quite linear. For some logical guessers, halfway through the book, you can make a good guess on what will happen.
This is an excellent "pass-the-time" or summer reading book.
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