Holes

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Summary: THE BEST BOOK ON THE ENTIRE EARTH!
Review: "HOLES" was THE best book that I have ever read! For those of you that need to be convinced, just email me and I shall really convince you, somehow! at [e-mail]! YOU MUST READ IT!!! I am very glad it won the Newberry Award!

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Summary: Wanna go diggin kids?
Review: "Holes," written by Louis Sachar, is a tale of intertwining stories meshed together to unfold a plot that will capture any reader, young or old! I loved this book so much that I have been making my adult friends, co-workers, and neighbors read it. They have all come to the same conclusion - this book is a story not to be missed by any. Young Stanley Yelnats is sent to a detention facility at Camp Green Lake, but this camp is not your average camp because "there is no lake at Camp Green Lake." From the beginning, Sachar has the reader trapped into why exactly there would be no lake at a place bearing a title that says otherwise. Stanley has been sent to this camp due to unforeseen circumstances, but weird happenings are quite regular with Stanley's life. His family has been cursed for generations thanks to his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great- grandfather!" When Stanley is told to dig holes, he doesn't understand what the purpose could possibly be. And these holes are not your average holes either, but then again, Stanley is not your average kid. He begins to realize that the holes may mean more than what they represent on the surface. Sachar weaves a tale that is hard to put down once started. The humor and wit keeps the reader interested through the very end. I highly recommend this book to kids and adults alike!

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Summary: THis book was really good.
Review: "Stanley Yelnats, we sentence you to eighteen months in Camp Green Lake for the theft of Clyde Livingston's shoes." Stanley dug his shovel into the ground. Only 540 mone to go, and all have to be five feet deep and five feet wide in every direction. The staff said it was to "build character", but Stanley thought otherwise. When Stanley's friend Zero asks if Stanley could teach him to read Stanley agrees if Zero dug some of his hole each day. Through out the story it tells about Stanley's great, great grandfather and how he affected Stanley's life by one little mistake he made. Stanley finds out what a true friend would do unlike his great, great Grandfether when he was surposed to take Madam Zeroni up the mountain.

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Summary: Holes is an unusually suspenseful book!
Review: "This is Camp Green Lake, you're not in Girl Scouts anymore!" Stanley Yelnats heard these words as soon as he walked off of the bus into the scorching weather. As far as the eye could see were holes, a cabin, tents, and no trees. Stanley has been sent to a boot camp that helps build character by digging holes that are five feet wide and high. It was hard for Stanley and the other boys at first. Later, Stanley knows that the warden is making them dig to find something, but what?

Stanley knows that he has been sent to this camp because of the curse from his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. Will Stanley ever get away from this curse? Read to find out! This book, Holes, is a very good and unusually suspenseful book that makes you not want to stop reading! You just want to find out what adventures will happen next! It is full of surprises and questions to be answered. Louis Sachar, the author, has also writing There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom. He makes his story plots humorous while being suspenseful. If you like fiction and humorous books, that are loaded with suspense, Holes is the book for you!

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Summary: Not as good as everyone said
Review: "You HAVE to read this!", or, "You can't put it down it is so good!". These were the quotes of my friends that were said to me. Those quotes won't be repeated by me. Ok, I'm a teenager, and this was supposed to be the best book of the year! All it was about was this Stanley guy who dug holes as a punishment for stealing a pair of famous shoes! I mean come on! Then, he see's this mountain shaped like a thumbs up and it inspired him! Geez! I had to write a book report on the lame book, and I had to draw what I thought the cover would be. I just drew a boy who dug holes, and mountains in the backround. It said it all! And even more, my teacher agreed! I was also very astonished that it has recieved the Newbery Award! I hope that the judges won't pick something as bad next year to be the prized book of the year! So in conclusion, I am immediatly switching over to Harry Potter for real reading enjoyment!

P.S.- Two Thumbs DOWN!

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Summary: Adult to Adults: Read It!
Review: "You really need to read this," said a colleague friend aware of my trials as a civil servant. "Really." Ordinarily, I don't look back to literature for younger readers given how many great adult books are out there to read before I die. This, however, is worth the brief time it takes to enjoy it. The quality of writing is excellent: a clean, swift economic style delivers vivid imagery. Plots and subplots are gracefully interwoven. The message about hope and redemption may be old as the hills but the execution is an original, absurdist vision of a cruel detention center for youths on a sun-scorched plain. Most of all, I liked our hero, Stanley Yelnats, he of the palindromic name, overweight, unpopular and too often set up to take the fall. He may be hapless but never self-pitying. He never looks back, he never loses the self, he never loses hope. You can overlook the plot coincidences, you can overlook the absurdity because it makes perfect sense in its own world.

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Summary: It was one of the best books I ever read!
Review: 'Holes' and the Harry Potter books were the best books I ever read in my life. 'Holes' was kind of complicated because so much of it relates to the past but it's named for filling in the holes. My teacher read it to my 5th grade class and we all loved it. This is a must-read!!!!!

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Summary: Holes - An Interesting Book
Review: 'Holes' is a book about a boy, Stanley Yelnats, who is blamed of stealing a pair of trainers belonging to a famous basketballer. He is given two options, either to go to prison or to go to camp. As anyone would, he chose the camp.

However, when he arrives at camp green lake he finds it is no ordinary camp. Firstly, there is no lake. There was a lake, but it dried up years ago. Secondly, the campers have to dig holes. One per day. The length of your shovel wide and the length of your shovel deep.

But why? Soon Stanley begins to suspect that there are more devious reasons for the digging than what they are told.

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Summary: An awesome book
Review: 'Holes' is an awesome book.It is always entertaining and its one of those books were you can't wait to see what happens next.It is very well written,too and it is one book you will probably wan't to read over and over again.Need some good reading?Then go out and pick up a copy of Holes.

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Summary: Good, But Kind of Babyish
Review: ... I noticed that this book is recommended for people 9-12. I agree. It was a good book; lots of excitement, sprinkled with a little humor, but not really a story that you can relate to in any way. Not a lot of people can say, "Oh, I've been to a camp before where I had to dig holes." What saved me from giving Holes three stars was the adorable Zero. He becomes a close friend of Stanley in the novel and is definitely one of the cutest characters I've ever read about. The plot is also off-beat and different. 9-12 year olds will probably love it, but I don't think teenagers will like it as much.