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Summary: Holes
Review: Holes is a book about Stanly Ylnats. He has a curse on his family. The story takes place in a desert, and it is by Louis Sachar. I liked this book because it has a lot of action in it. The lesson teaches never be a bad person. Why in the world are people digging holes? Find out more by reading more of this great book.
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Summary: Holes book Review
Review: Holes By Louis Sachar "There's no lake at Camp Green Lake. There once was a very large lake here, the largest in Texas. That was over a hundred years ago. Now it is just a dry, flat wasteland. There used to be a town of Green Lake as well. The town shriveled and dried up along with the lake, and the people who lived there." After I read this first paragraph I thought it sounded good that I actually wanted to read it. When I did I couldn't put it down until I finished it. Holes by Louis Sacher is about a boy named Stanley Yelnates who is sent to Camp Green Lake for stealing a famous baseball players old shoes. He's clamed that he was innocent and that it's his no-good-dirty-rotten-great-great-grandfather fault for placing the cures on the family. Since he always being made fun of for his large size he thinks Camp Green Lake will be a great place to make new friends who don't know about his past. Will he be able to brake the cures? And will he ever make it out of Camp Green Lake? Alive? If you want to know you'll have to read Holes.
Ever since I first read this book about 4 years ago I've reread it about 8 more times! I liked this book right from the start because it wasn't one of those books where the beginning isn't really slow and boring but starts out with lot's of action. I also enjoyed the cliffhangers at the end of most chapters which left you to wonder 'what will happen next" and the flashbacks to the past which give you a better understanding of how everything got started. Plus the details and descriptions of Camp Green Lake and what the charters looked like where fabulous.
Since this book has more than one genre I recommend it to anyone who enjoys any of the following genres; adventure, mystery, fantasy. Because the reading level is really easy so all ages could enjoy Holes. This book is also for people who enjoy reading books with parts that leave you to wonder "what will happen next" then you should really take a look at this book. Clearly Holes is a well rounded book that has a little of what everyone would like and should be read and reread by everyone.
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Summary: Nice idea; but a book not quite polished enough.
Review: Stanley Yelnats is sent off to camp where 'digging to build character' is the order of the day. But in reality, things are very different... This 1998 book is a very readable book, intended for children, written in a straightforward and entertaining manner, probably most suitable for children aged between about nine and fourteen. The language and plot have been kept nice and simple, to make it readable, and it can be read in about four to six hours. The book contains a lot of original ideas and nice touches, and is, on the whole, well-written for its target readers. But you can pick a lot of holes in the plot. Improbabilities. Illegalities that probably wouldn't happen in real life. Too many coincidences. A too-simplistic ending that isn't legally correct. But the book's supposed to be a bit of fun, and for kids so does that matter? Maybe, not really. Maybe grown-ups should keep out of the debate. The book has nice ideas - like the growing child carrying the growing piglet idea, symbolic of training for life; like the 'I'll fix that!' phrase; like the 'you help me out and I'll help you out back' concept. And so on. This book left me with the impression of a book only half-written. The writer had an excellent idea, plotwise, but he didn't work quite hard enough to finish the article: it had potential to be brilliant, but it was only left as a 'quite good' article. But it's still a book worth reading.
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Summary: Holes
Review: The book Holes is basically about a boy named Stanley who is accused of stealing shoes. Though he is not guilty, he is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile delinquent center, and is ordered to dig holes 5' wide, 5' deep. As the book progresses, one of the kids named "Zero" runs away. Stanley goes to find him . When Stanley tracks him down, he decides not to go back to camp for a while and take refuge on Gods Thumb. It has a spring with onion plants, and is far different than the camp set in the desert. When they return to camp, they uncover a piece of Stanley's family history.
I thought the book was really exciting. It was filled with adventure, and I didn't want to ever put it down. The book even has a little action in it when Stanley "borrows" the truck to find "Zero". I'd recommend this book if you like comedy, action, adventure, and excitement. You won't wan't to stop reading it!!
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Summary: One of the Best of This Genre!
Review: As a member of several book groups from time to time members recommend reads from the world of children's literature and young adult titles. In the past few years I have read and loved The Giver by Lois Lowry, Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt and The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot. When I learned that a movie based on Holes bu Louis Sachar, starring Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight and Henry Winkler was in the production stage, I decided to read this well loved book first. And once again reading this book confirmed for me that a really great read can be found in a genre we may feel is for a younger audience. While on the surface Holes tells a rather simple story of how an ancient curse affects a present day tale, this book touches on more profound themes which will keep any reader turning the pages quickly. Chief among the themes is loyalty, independence, siolation, segregation, evil vs. good and above all else, love. Told with humor and compassion, this book takes its rightful place among other wonderful titles and in my opinion is destined to become a classic in years to come. Stanley Yelnats is a young man sent to the Green Lake Detention Camp for Boys after he is accused of stealing a pair of snearker from a famous basketball player at an auction. Stanley's mother urges Stanley to look upon this event as an opportunity to have fun since he's never been to a camp. But as Stanley will soon learn, Green Lake Camp is neither green land, a lake nor an ordinary camp. It is instead a camp where a group of young boys are at a facility overseen by The Warden, a woman, and Mr. Sir. All that Stanley and the others are told they must do is dig holes of a specified size under a broiling sun and report on what they find as they dig. What is never explained to them, though, is why they are digging these holes and what they are supposed to find. We as readers, though, learn about a curse from long ago, what the boys are really looking for and a woman bandit and the man she loved and lost. But most of all we learn how Stanley's family heritage in a tale from long ago and how it brought him to Green Lake. Considered a book for young adults, the author Louis Sachar presents two paralell stories which had me gulping down the pages. Not only do I recommend this book to younger teenage readers but also to adults who enjoy a bit of humor and poignancy. This is a one of a kind book and I look forward to rereading it again and again.
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Summary: Im diging it!!!!
Review: Austin dixon
Im diging it
In holes a boy named stanly gets blamed for a crime.He has a choice to go to camp green lake or jail.Soon he will go to camp.when something wrong happends he blames it on his great pig stealing grandfather.
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Summary: A fantastic book
Review: The characters in Holes are Stanley Yelnats the 4th,his grandpa,his dad,and his mom. At Camp Green Lake thier was Zig Zag,Arpit,Twitch,Xray,Zero,Mr. Sir,the Warden,and Mr. Pendenski. The setting took place at Camp Green Lake. Sanley Yelnats the 4th went to Camp Green Lake because the police thought Stanley stole a baseball players shoes, but he dident. He made new friends but Zero was his best friend. And a adventure comes up! ...
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Summary: Holes Review
Review: Holes is a commonly read book. The main character, Stanely Yelnats[ which is Stanely spelled back wards]is sent to "Camp Green Lake" for supposedly stealing some valuable baseball shoes. While there he faces tough circumstances. Such as learning how to deal with different people [when he met the other boys at his Detention Camp], and learning how to deal with life when it's it its worst. Dealing with problems is much better than letting them take you down with them. Stanely is not the only one that is picked on... "Zero" is also learning some crucial life lessons, Such as letting someone else pay for your crimes. One day while at lunch Stanelys campmates and Stanely are discussing what crime(s) resulted in them at going to Camp Green Lake, when Stanely telles them that he was there becaues of some shoes that "dropped from the sky", when Zero asked if they had red X's on them [Zero never talked before at the camp to the boys and was made fun of by being called stupid]. Stanely responds yes. Then later in the book Zero telles Stanely that he panicked when he heard the police coming and threw them over from the highway as he was walking in a desperate attempt to be innocent. Stanely and Zero were the best of friends and [Zero] was adopted into Stanely's family when he was released. Holes has different impacts on peoples lives
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Summary: journey through holes
Review: This book had such creativity and imagination. I recommend it to anyone with a love of a great mystery and anyone who is a child at heart.
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Summary: Holes
Review: I liked this book. I would not recommend it to kids younger than nine years old. I liked how the author switched back and forth between past time and present. The climax was exciting. Thumbs up!!!
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