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Summary: It gets better the farther into the story you get!
Review: Wow! I thought I'd get depressed reading this story but I was so compelled to go on just to see how Stanley held up under the enormous pressure and injustices. He kept on thinking and working when others would have given up. I love his spirit and his perseverence, resilience and lack of cynicism. I "tried it out" on my fifth grade son and was sure he'd reject it... but he never put it down. I encouraged him to get through the first few chapters and it would get better. He did and he loved it too! Food for thought and discussions for weeks and even months.
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Summary: A New Classic
Review: WOW! is all i said after reading this book to tell you all the truth i thought oh well i guess i will read this.... and ended up saying "what if i haden't read this?" now like many others my favorite books are the Harry Potter Series and charlotes Web but now count this one as 2 favorite!
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Summary: suspence
Review: wow! normally i dont like reading books but this was just amazing! full of suspence! and an interesting thing about this book is that you really have to think and figure things out in your mind while reading! couldn't put it down!
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Summary: A creative and compelling adventure novel
Review: Wow! This is a great book. It begins with a boy named Stanley Yelnats (the fourth) who has gone to Camp Greenlake, a juvinile delinquit camp, because he was accused of stealing Clide "sweet feet" Livingston's donated shoes. At the camp,the boys are forced to dig holes, five feet wide and five feet deep, to help "build character." Or so they think. Throughout the book, the chapters alternate between past and present, and the reader finds out what they are really digging for.
At the camp, Stanley meets the other boys, all with nicknames like Zigzag, Magnet, X-ray, Armpit, Zero, and Squid,and gets one of his own:Caveman. He doesn't really hit it off with the boys at first, except for Zero.
Things aren't too bad, wake up, eat breakfast, dig holes, eat dinner, go to bed.....until Zero runs away from the camp, the "only" watersource in 100 miles. Then it's up to Stanley to rescue him.
This review doesn't cover even half of this amazing book's potential. This is SUCH A GREAT BOOK!! I DEFINATELY reccomend it! It is not, under any circumstances a waste of money, so GO AND BUY IT!!!
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Summary: A Book Review of''Holes"
Review: Wow! Wait until you hear about a book called "Holes."I could not put it down for a minute. A boy named Stanley Yelnats gets sent to prison camp.His parents think that he needs to lose weight.The prison camp is called Green Lake,but there is no lake .At this camp the boys dig holes for the Warden.You will have to read the book to find out what happens to Stanley at the prison camp.This is a great book for ages 10 and up.
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Summary: Cursed by their Ancestors?
Review: WOW--Summer camp was never like this--fortunately! How could crooks get away with it all those years: false imprisonment, exploitation of child labor, psychological cruelty, even physical torture and destruction of state records? Poor Stanley--fat, a social pariah, falsely accused of the theft of some smelly sneakers. Then sentenced to 18 months of digging holes in a dried-up lakebed in the Texas boonies. Why, it's enough to make you want to spit! No one would choose a loser like Stanley Yelnats IV to be the kid to break the system. Or a gypsy curse. But how long can we blame our ancestors for present problems and our own failures? Can a jinx truly be inherited? Why are the kids Really up at 4:30 a.m. to dig holes 5 feet deep? Is more than just "character" being molded in the desert? But this social flop will undergo a physical and mental makeover at barren Camp Green Lake. So how can he make friends among the state's worst juvenile bullies and hoodlums? Stanley's misadventures at this correctional facility will keep readers fascinated predicting future events, pondering the past, as well as in stitches just trying to interpret the odd clues. You'll trip over multiple coincidences like discarded dirt mounds, but Sachar's dry wit and generous dialgoue alleviate literary thirst. This book is a delightful winner--for kids of all ages!
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Summary: CURSED BY THEIR ANCESTORS
Review: WOW--Summer camp was never like this--fortunately! How could the crooks get away with it all those years: false imprisonment, exploitation of child labor, psychological cruelty and physical torture, poison, destruction of state records, etc? Poor Stanley--fat, social pariah, falsly accused of the theft of some smelly sneakers; then sentenced to 18 months of digging holes in a dried-up lakebed in the Texas boonies. Enough to make you want to spit! No one would choose Stanley Yelnats IV to be the kid to break the system. Or a gypsy curse. But how long can we blame our ancestors for present problems and our own failures? Can a jinx truly be inherited? Why are the kids Really up at 4:30 am to dig holes 5 feet deep? Is more than just "Character" being molded in the desert? But this social flop will undergo a physical and mental metamorphosis at barren Camp Green Lake. How can he make friends among the state's worst bullies and hoodlums? His misadventures at this juvenile correctional facility will keep readers fascinated, guessing future events and in stitches, trying to interpret the clues. You'll trip over multiple coincidences like discarded dirt mounds, but Sachar's dry wit and generous dialogue alleviate literary thirst. This book is delightful, for readers of all ages!
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Summary: Whole - Complete
Review: Yep. It's just that good. Every school in this country is reading this book. Every booklist recommends it. Every child has or will know its plot before they grow old. It is simple. It is a classic. It is brilliant. It is "Holes". So what's the big deal about this story? Anyone reading the plot will puzzle over the commendations it has received. In it, Stanley Yelnats (note that his name is spelled the same, backwards and forwards) is sent to Camp Green Lake for a crime he did not commit. At a detention camp in the middle of a desert, Stanley must dig a hole as long, wide, and deep as his shovel every day. Along with his compatriots he seems to be searching for something. But what? The book follows Stanley, a fat white boy, and the variety of different kinds of people he finds himself encamped with. After reading this book, my husband commented that it is a small encapsulation of white America's current state of slavery and the apologies we should make. At first I couldn't see it. Now I can. In the climax of this story Stanley carries Zero, an African American youth abandoned by his mother, up a mountain fulfilling a curse placed on the Yelnats from generation to generation. The camp itself is simply a slave state for kids that no one wants or cares about. Themes of illiteracy and assumptions about what people can and can not learn are brought up. The book is deceptively simple. It reads particularly well for young readers but contains themes and thoughts larger than I thought you could place in a book so small. It will not date. It will only grow more interesting over time.
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Summary: My 3 hour car-drive to visit my aunt read!
Review: Yes, I read this book in the CAR, for 3 hours, and finished it when we got to my aunts. There were times when I got a headache because I can get car sick very easily and just wanted to put the book down, but I couldn't. This book makes you fall in love with the characters, and make you feel sympathy for poor Stanley. Even though this book is about Stanley and his adventure at Camp Green Lake (which isn't your typical camp at all), my favorite character was a boy named Zero, whom Stanley decided to help teach him how to read and write, in exchange that Zero digs half of Stanley's hole. I have no idea why Zero was my favorite character, I guess he had that special weird something about him that I just quite couldn't get, and those are the characters I like best in a book. Holes has everything a book needs to be excellent, and a must read for all, even though it is like a fourth grade reading level!
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Summary: One of the best books ever
Review: Yesterday(4/30) I saw the movie "Holes" with my mother. I honestly loved the whole movie. On Saturday (4/26), my sister told me to take some books home from college for her. On the way home, I read "Holes". It was fascinating. Before I went to bed at 11pm,I had finished the whole book. I just couldn't wait to see the movie and picture these actors in these roles as I read the book. Anyone who is anyone should pick up a copy at their local library and read it. It will make you feel like a little kid again.
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