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Summary: Holes
Review: I loved Holes it was so different and unusual.I loved how they digged Holes.I knew the warden was mean when she made the people there dig holes in order to find the treasure.I would reccomend this book for all ages.I thought this book was so good.
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Summary: A teacher's viewpoint
Review: Last year, I had an extremely difficult group of 7th grade readers. They scoffed at the traditional books and rarely read on their own. Homework was not in their vocabulary. So I began reading to them. First I read the required books, but they did not grab their attention. Then I read Louis Sachar's Holes. What a captivating read that is - deserving of its Newbery status. I couldn't get through an entire chapter without having a good discussion directly related to the book. When it ended, they wanted to read it again (imagine that!) so they could see how the author built in the foreshadowing and wove the plot throughout the book. I heartily recommend this book to anyone who has a difficult group of students that needs to be turned on to books.
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Summary: Wow!!
Review: I read this book aloud to my 4th grade class. I did have to make minor edits for foul and unacceptable language. However, the children LOVED it. They couldn't get enough of it. They begged me to read it. Parts of it may have been slightly over their head and some of the vocabulary had to be discussed but, the story itself was totally engrossing.
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Summary: HOLES
Review: Holes is a great book to read. This book is about a young boy named Stanley Yelnats(don't you just like the way that his name is written backwards) who gets blamed for something that he didn't do, in wich the real person who did it was his Great Grnad Father. It is alos about boys who get sent to bootcamp to dig holes to make their lifes better in some way by digging hole.
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Summary: HOLES
Review: Holes, Holes had to be the best books I read this year.I enjoyed it and thought it was very good. This book made me want to read on and on. When I first picked the book up I thought it was going to be boring because of the cover,but I quickly learned that it is not good to judge book by it's cover.I think that many young and adults should pick up this book it's an exciting and thrilling book, and has many things teens can relate to.
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Summary: holes
Review: The book I read was Holes and I thought it was a very good book. It made you wanting to keeping reading it because you didn`t know what was goin to happen next. The book was also good because it taught friendship and how to care for people you like even tough u hardly know them. What really got to me was the part when Stanley the main character carried Zero up the mountain instead of leaving him and then found out that you need water to make mud. After he figured that out he dug a holde and found water to give to Zero and himself so they wouldnt dehydrate and die. I also thought it was nice of nice of Stanley to teach Zero how to read and write even tough the counselers thought of Zero as nothing. Stanley also showed respect for Zero by not asking questions that Zero would get mad at. Overall I thought this book was very good and I rate it with a four. I would encourage people of all ages to read this book because they would enjoy it.
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Summary: A Review of Louis Sachar's Holes
Review: The title of the book is Holes, by Louis Sachar. The book was published in 1998 and is 233 pages long. Holes received a John Newberry Medal, was the winner of the National Book Award, was a Bulletin Blue Ribbon Book, and was voted a New York Times Best Book of the Year, and is recognized as one of Sachar's best pieces of writing. The story is both of a mystery and humorous genre. Holes is one of those books that you can read in one night because you do not want to put it down. The story begins with our main character Stanley Yelnats, whose last name for those of you who were wondering is his first name spelt backwards. Stanley is a young boy who is plagued by a family curse, which was brought on to the family by his grandfather. Stanley's misfortunes have landed him at Camp Green Lake, which does not turn out to be a camp at all; it is more of a juvenile correctional facility. Although he was wrongly convicted of his crime and was innocent he was sentenced to a year and a half at camp Green Lake, where the motto 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." Stanley was placed into a dry, hot wasteland and told to dig a hole that was five feet in depth and five feet in diameter. Stanley also meets a boy named Zero after his first week there. Zero and Stanley become best friends and forms a special bond with Zero. Stanley also teaches Zero how to read and do things that he may have never learned if he and Stanley had never been acquainted. It is not long before Stanley realizes that he and his fellow "juveniles" are not digging the holes just for pure punishment, but to find and uncover a lost treasure from the famous outlaw, Kissin Kate Barlow, who turned out to be the very same outlaw that robbed Stanley's grandfather. As the story progresses we begin to see more and more connections between the Yelnats family and Camp Green Lake. As we read further, a second story begins to progress about Stanley's great-great grandfather and the curse that was laid upon him by Madame Zeroni. Then a third story begins to evolve which is of Kissin Kate Barlow and her husband Sam, who was an onion man his whole life. All three of these stories begin to fit together like a puzzle almost, and we begin to see that all of these characters have been drawn together due to fate, as well as with what happens to them. Fate seems to play a big role in each one of the characters lives. The Yelnats family believes that they had been plagues with bad luck for generations, believing that there was a curse put on Stanley's great-great grandfather by a gypsy more then a hundred years ago. But as the story begins to unfold we learn that this curse, may not have been such a bad curse, because it seems to have touched the lives of many characters. It seems as though everyone is linked to one another for a reason all having to due with the curse. No one wanted to believe that such a curse existed, but after seeing all that unfolded they had no choice to believe it unless they were in denial. The curse that plagued was brought on to Stanley's grandfather, because he did not carry Madame Zeroni up the mountainside as he had promised. The plague that has cursed the family is all due to a gypsy not being carried up a mountain, but it seems that maybe Stanley's grandfather may have known a little more then the gypsy because he did not carry her up the mountain, she then put a curse on the family, which then allowed all of the characters to come together and Stanley was able to learn about his past. I believe that this story was written because something like this may have happened to Sachar on a smaller scale though. There may have been a curse that may have plagued his family in the same way that Stanley's family was plagued. Holes is also one of those books that you can sort of visualize what is going on as you are reading. There is great detail used and there are parts that allow you to relate to what is written. For example the very last sentences of the story are lines from a poem that the women's mother used to recite to her every night before she went to sleep. "If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply; Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by. Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly. Fly high, my baby bird, My angel, my only." (233)I personally was able to relate top this because my mother and father would always read me the same bedtime story before I went to sleep, which is on the same level as the poem that was recited to the women when she was younger. Each character seemed to hold to hold a very important role in the novel and making it all click. There were no characters in the story that did not belong. Each character was well thought out and played a role that was needed, and was importance to the story. I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a story with a serious and humorous approach to a story of crime and punishment
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Summary: Excellent YA reading
Review: Imaginitive, funny, touching. Easy to enjoy for young adults and adults who still feel young.
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Summary: The Awesome'ist Book
Review: This is the best book because it's funny when the Warden scratches Mr.Sir. I have read it 2 times and I still love it!
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Summary: Holes - a masterpiece
Review: I have found that many of my favorite books are those written for children and young adults, and this one is no exception. This book is so well-written, and the story is full of humor, and great unforgettable characters, It is about friendship, fate, the underdog, and is all tied up into a beautiful story. I believe kids and adults alike will love to read this book as they wait for the next edition of Harry Potter. It is no mistake that this book was awarded the Newberry Medal.
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