Holes

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Summary: Super Story
Review: Holes by Louis Sachar is a great story. It keeps the reader wanting to flip the pages 1 by 1. I started reading this book and I never stopped. I read it in about 5 hours it was so good. There is great detail on each and every day of the story. All of the characters are told about in depth. HOles is about a boy named Stanley Yelnats. He has committed a crime and has to choose whether to go to jail or to go to the dreaded Camp Greenlake. Willingly Stanley chose the camp because his family was too poor to afford to go to camp. So it was a good thing for him, until he showed up at the camp of doom. Read this book to find out the rest it is a great story

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Summary: The ultimate showdown
Review: Holes by Louis Sachar is a must read for people of all ages. I could not put it down although I began reading it after hearing a less than stellar review from a colleague. However, I am a Texan so that pushed me to read about this fictional boys' camp in West Texas. I was not disappointed. Within its pages, you will find the most satisfying showdown between good and evil since Gary Cooper faced down those black-hatted desperadoes in the classic movie High Noon. Buy multiple copies; give them to friends of all ages at holiday time; read it to your students. Read and enjoy this one. You'll never forget it!

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Summary: The Ultimate Showdown
Review: Holes by Louis Sachar is a must read. I could not put it down although I had received an initial less than sterling review from a colleague. You will find within these pages the most satisfying, best scripted showdown between good and evil since Gary Cooper faced down those black-hatted desperadoes in the classic movie High Noon. Buy multiple copies; give it at holidays to everyone whether young or old; read it to your students. Just enjoy it!

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Summary: Help! I Am a Prisoner at Camp Green Lake
Review: Holes by Louis Sachar is a realistic fiction book for tireless people because Stanley, the main character, has to dig a hole that is 5 feet tall and 5 feet wide everyday. Stanley Yelnats is as fat as a huge pumpkin; in fact, he's the heaviest in his class! He's also imaginative because he thought he was cursed. Louis Sachar chose Camp Green Lake that used to be Green Lake, Texas, for the setting but now it is a dry, flat wasteland. Stanley was sent to the Camp, which trained bad boys to good boys through doing hard labor. He met a friend Zero in Camp Green Lake who dug the fastest hole. The three most interesting parts were, firstly, that Stanley finally found out that Zero couldn't read a single word on his letters when he has been scolding his friend all the while. Secondly, I like the way Louis Sachar describes Stanley's first day digging a humongous hole five feet tall and five feet wide, it was so real as if I was there. Thirdly, Zero ran away and Stanley ran after him for fear that he might be eaten by creatures or die of thirst. Fortunately, Zero found food and survived. I would recommend this book to anyone alive because even an adult would think it was fabulous. It has a bit of everything like animals, punishment, other people's personality and fantasy and one more very good reason is because Louis Sachar told two stories at once and it succeeded. I hope you like the book because I did!

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Summary: Holes review
Review: Holes by Louis Sachar is about a boy named Stanley Yelnats who is wrongly accused of stealing Clyde "Sweet Feet" Livingston's sneakers that were donated to help raise money for a homeless shelter. As a consequence, Stanley is arrested and sent to a boy's detention center called Camp Green Lake. Here, Stanley and others are to dig one hole, five feet deep, and five feet across, each day in the dry lake bed. They are told that by doing this they would build character and turn their lives around. The philosophy is, "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." This is not the case, however, because the warden is really using Stanley and the other boys to dig for loot buried by Kissin' Kate Barlow.
This is a good book for children ages 10 and up. Being a Newberry Medal award winner, the book displays high literary merit in terms of many literary elements. The characters and setting of the story are unique, yet believable. The main character has an interesting name because his first name, Stanley, is also his last name spelled backwards. The other boys' nicknames are unique too: Armpit, Squid, Zigzag, Magnet and Zero. Zero inherited his nickname because " there is nothing inside his head." The book reveals great insight into Zero and other characters through dialogue, and the reader will find out that Zero is a bright kid yearning to learn, and more information about Stanley and the other hole diggers. These boys are digging their holes at a place called Camp Green Lake. With a name containing "Lake" in it, you'd think there'd be a lake there, and that is what also makes the setting unique, because there is no longer a lake there. It dried up over one hundred years ago and is now just a dry, flat wasteland. The plot is unique in a sense that it floats between past lives and present realities. It is pretty straightforward, but has three main stories to the book. One is the life of Stanley's great-great grandfather, the other is of Kissin' Kate Barlow, and the last is of the conditions which led to Stanley's sentence to the camp.
I found this book to be quite enjoyable, and feel as though many young readers will have interest in this book as well. It has precise vocabulary and content that is appealing for children ages 10 and up. The book is also very humorous and unique, and the varied sentence lengths are descriptive and easy to read. Overall, the book is catchy and you find it hard to put it down because you keep learning different surprises that flow naturally. After reading this book, I understand why this was a Newberry Medal winner. The book can be used within the classroom to show that all children have potential. This potential goes hand in hand with Zero since he got made fun of because "there is nothing inside his head." It turned out that he had a lot of ambition within him and wanted to do something with it. Students can learn that they can reach their fullest potential as well!

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Summary: A Review for Holes
Review: Holes by Louis Sachar is about a boy named Stanley Yelnats. The story takes place in the present time. Stanley Yelnats is overweight, his apartment always smells like shoes and people make fun of him. Stanley has a series of bad things happening in his life. 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 one hole a day, five feet deep and five feet wide. He met a boy named Zero there who has something to do with the curse on his family. I really liked this story.

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Summary: Holes
Review: HOLES by Louis Sachar is an exceptional book that easily surpasses the designation of "good book." It is very rich in literary merit and easily enjoyed by audiences of all ages. The setting and characters are effortlessly believable and unique. In the world that we live in today juvenile correctional facilities are commonplace. The vocabulary used in the book is appropriate for the level of the audience and utilizes many figurative language devises. For example, midway through the book the author paints a vivid picture of green lake, "...and it (the lake) sparkled like a giant emerald in the sun." Figurative language greatly influences a books literary merit. Another aspect that contributes to the quality of this book is that it makes the reader care about the outcome. There are so many twist and turns within the novel that it is hard to put down. Holes makes the reader form many questions in his/her head throughout the book. These questions make the reader search through the book for answers and develop feelings for the characters and the events that take place throughout the story. Many other aspects contribute to the books quality but I believe none are as impressive as the novels ability to facilitate suspension of disbelief. Some aspects of the book are hard to believe, such as the curse put on Stanley's family. However, while reading the book the reader doesn't take notice to minor details and is engrossed by the plot and actions that occur while reading. It's ability to do this is far better then a majority of books and keeps the reader actively engaged and enhances its' literary merit significantly.
I recommend this book. It can easily relate to a variety of individuals taste and interest an assortment of readers. It captivates the readers' attention by having several stories within the whole. One individual story can captivate interest enough to encourage readers to keep reading. It has a taste of reality with the juvenile detention camp but also has some fantasy, involving gypsies and curses. It touches adventure when dealing with Stanley's escape from Camp Green Lake and evokes interest with talk of "buried treasures." It allows students to uses reasoning skills and draw their own conclusions and promotes creativity and imagination. All these qualities make the book enjoyable and invaluable when it comes to reading. Holes is the type of book that evokes a positive attitude towards reading and that is the most valuable attribute when adressing this books value.

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Summary: My review on Holes
Review: Holes by Louis Sachar was a very interesting book. This book is appropriate for young adults. This book was about a young boy, Stanley Yelnats, who was under a curse and got wrongfully acused and was sent to a detention senter. There he had to dig holes. He didn't know what he was digging for but the camp director had the boys to dig because he was looking for a treasure. This book is very interesting to anything I have read in the past. It was kind of a mystery a little bit too. I didn't know what anyone was digging for so I had to try to figure it out. I have never read anything about digging holes. I knew about detention centers, but I never thought Stanley would have to dig holes. So that caught me by surprise. Now on my personal reaction to this book. It was interesting but kind of weird. First he is wrongfully acused, then sent under a curse, and then digs holes. Those are some of the big things that are important in this book. I also find those things kind of humorous but also very interesting. They all catch your attention, and make you want to keep reading to find out why all this happened. "You're not looking for anything. You're digging to build character. It's just if you find anything, the Warden would like to know about it." (pg. 27) I think this quote is the mystery to the novel. The Warden wants them to dig holes for a reason, but you don't find that until the very end of the book why they are digging. I thought the book was interesting but i didn't enjoy it that much. I thought there could have been a better plot to the novel than digging holes.

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Summary: the best review
Review: HOLES By Louis Sachar, 232 pgs. Holes is a book that includes everythimg you could want in a book. Its got action, adventure, suspense, homor, and even some horror. Stanley Yelnats got sent to a juvenile correction center called Camp Greenlake. It was all because of some famous basketball players shoes fell from the sky. The police thought he did it so he was sent there. Stanley becomes very good friends with a kid named Zero. Most days while stanley is digging his hole he will think back on stories about his ancestors and Kissin Kate Barlow. Zero and Stanley get in a lot of trouble at Camp Greenlake. It was a great book and everybody should read it.

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Summary: Bob the Builder M?B? says it's a GREAT book!
Review: Holes by Louis Sachar
Stanley was sent to Camp Green Lake.
Because he accused of stealing shoes from a famouse
baseball player. And Stanley goes to Camp Green Lake
for his punishment and has to dig holes .Five feet deep
and five feet diameter.While he is at Green Lake he meets
some friends who have some wierd names theres X-Ray,Armpit,Zero,
Magnet and Zig-Zag. Stanley has a nickname to his is "Caveman".
And Sanley teaches Zero how to read and write.Zero runs away
because he dosen't like digging holes that much.
So Stanley took the warter truck to go find his little buddy
Zero,but Stanley drives it in to a hole.

I think it was a good book I liked it ,you might like it too.