Holes (Thorndike Large Print Young Adult Seires)

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Summary: Weird
Review: I may be the only person in creation who didn't like "Holes." It was just too weird and not believable. I thought it didn't make sense a lot of the time and I didn't like all the "just happened to" events. Nothing is really like that. It did not sound like an adventure to me. it was just weird. I didn't like it.

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Summary: I'm Impressed!
Review: I have to confess that I have not read "Holes" myself - yet. My 13-year-old stepdaughter is reading it in summer school and has been talking about it non-stop. She is a very reluctant reader and usually NEVER reads unless she has to. She cannot wait to see what comes next in this book, and that, if nothing else, convinces me that this book must really be special. I can't wait to find out for myself.

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Summary: Great!
Review: At first I kept deciding not to get this book because the plot didn't sound very interesting, but since it is so highly praised and recommended I decided to try it. Was I glad I did! In this tightly-woven story (or two stories), everything works out so well in the end that it's quite surprising! This is a great book to read more than once to get all the little catches again. Plus it's funny, and it never gets boring! A must-read!

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Summary: A Book for Everyone Who Has Ever Felt Cursed
Review: As my children get older (eight and nine), it is harder to findbooks that hold their attention at story time. This book kept all ofus entertained. It is the story of Stanley Yelnats. This hapless young man was in the wrong place at the wrong time -- all because of his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather!" My kids loved it and I think your kids (aged eight and above) will love it too.

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Summary: My students loved it!
Review: This book was passed around my classroom. My non-readers and avid readers loved this book! Holes is a complex story but, it holds the reader's attention. Some children may have a hard time finding the connection between all the things in the story. This would be a great book to read as a family or in the classroom!

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Summary: My suspicions were founded
Review: I have just finished skimming a teen book news letter that I can not seem to unsubscribe from. Every week or two this newsletter infects my email box with it's presence. Sometimes when I have nothing better to do I will skim it. I am almost always disappointed with what I find. The majority of what is reviewed are serial books that are based on "teen aimed" TV series. Along with their reviews of these pathetic spin-offs they also include nauseating polls,usually on the subjects that the writers believe are the "latest teen crazes." One day though they printed something useful for a change. A list of authors who write for the YA genre but whose prose and subject matter could also have a place in the regular fiction section. Despite their best efforts I was once again for the most part disappointed. Included in the list were Walter Dean Myeres and Cynthia Voight. Walter Dean Myeres intentionally type casts himself, thus effectively limiting his audience to those who like reading books within that type cast. Cynthia Voight's era has passed, and though I have not read any of her books I also suspect that her books are aimed at a female audience. As I was looking at this newsletter today I saw more of what I have just described and I thought to myself: where have all the REAL books gone? In the list I just spoke of two of my favorite YA authors were included on it as well, Robert Cormier and Chris Crutcher. But presently I have completed Cormier's latest book and I am eagerly awaiting the release of Crutcher's next. I remembered as I was skimming that I had read an article in Time where the author thought she was making an astute observation when she noted that books aimed at teens were dealing with tougher issues and that the they were a far cry from the "teen problem novels" of her youth. She used three books to support her argument "Monster" by Walter Dean Myeres, "The facts speak for the themselves" By Brock Cole and Louis Sachar's "Holes" I had read Cole's "The facts speak for themselves" and enjoyed it, I was not interested in Myere's "Monster" So that left Sachar's "Holes" I decided to look it up on Amazon and read some reviews. I read one by a mother who's third and fifth grade aged children had enjoyed this book. That proved my suspicion that "Holes" would be nothing more than a sugar coated CHILDREN'S book. Which brings me back to my question, where have all the REAL books gone? For those who want a serious read I do have a few sugesstions: Robert Cormier and Chris Crutcher, the rest are outside the YA genre, anything by Raymond Chandler, John Steinbeck, and John Grisham. I realize that it is possible that I am getting too old for the YA genre and that my age might be the reason that I am discontent with it's offerings. But on the other hand, the only reason many books are classified as Young Adult is because they feature a teen-ager as the protaganist. In any case, I ask one more time, where have all the REAL books gone?

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Summary: awesome book!
Review: All I can said is this book is ULTIMATE book. It was the best book I've ever read, the story is simple and exciting, and words draws you an image of the settings. If you havn't so, read HOLES. I've read lot of another books written by Louis Sachar, but this one is the master piece of all. So if you are looking forward to have some fun while reading, get this book and read it for 24 hours.

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Summary: bam!
Review: I think that this is a really really good book. I am in summer school and we read this book and it is the best book I've read in here. The book is extreemly well written and it definatly deserved the award it won. The plot was very well thought out and unlike other books I would actually read it again. Hell, if I had the money I would go out and buy it! BAM!

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Summary: Holes
Review: I read Holes by Louis Sacher and I loved it. I really loved how the book was so detailed on the characters emotions. It was so understandable what the charcaters had to go through.

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Summary: Holes
Review: I loved the book especially how it wraps it all up at theend. I really liked the story line and the side story of the past. Ialso enjoyed all the interaction beetween characters such as how all the boys treated him from beggining to end. If you read this book and I sinserily hope that you do you should be extremely carefully to remember the details otherwise the end will really throw you. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes awesome endings. It may seem that this review focuses mainly on the ending but thats because the ending makes this story what it is.