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Summary: Great for the whole family
Review: Our family (kids ages 7 & 11) listened to this on a car trip. We loved it so much, we were reluctant to get out of the car. It's a multi-faceted story that ties together charmingly at the end. We had fun guessing what would happen next.
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Summary: Holes
Review: Holes is a very creative book, full of action and humor. It is about Stanley Yelnats and his survival story at a terible camp.
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Summary: I loved it !
Review: I READ THIS BOOK FOR SCHOOL AND I LOVED IT . IT SEEMED LIKE EVERYTHING WAS TIRED TOGETHER.I LOVED EVERYTHING DOWN TO THE YELLOW SPOTTED LIZZARDS !SO IF YOU WANT A PAGE TURNER PLEASE READ THIS YOU WILL LOVE IT AND THAT IS A PROMISE !
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Summary: Brilliant, for all ages
Review: This is an absolutely brilliant and moving story. If it had been around when I was 13, I would have been unable to put it down. Now, I'm 31, and I am unable to put it down. You simply don't have to be young or adolescent to enjoy this book. It is just specific and detailed enough to paint a vivid picture, and also (like many of Samuel Beckett's best books) just abstract enough to be timeless. Stanley Yelnats--the main character, a nebbish punished (like all of us, occasionally) without any sense of fairness--does not make us relate to him by being a superficial copy of anyone. He, and the other characters--especially Mr. Sir, a macho overseer, and the other boys enduring youth correction camp--are understandable because they are so very *real.* Every character in the book is like a statue carved in wood, and etched with both wit and compassion. Mark my words--people will still be reading this book 100 years from now. They may be astounded to know that it dates back all the way to the early 21st Century.
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Summary: Dabomb
Review: Iliked the book it rocked.Finney has no game signed Da Bomb
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Summary: Holes - A Friendship Book
Review: Holes opened my mind about friendship. Even though it was sad at times, like when Stanley got in the lizards nest, Zero and Stanley stuck together. I still don't understand why that one guy carried the pig up the mountain. If you get it you're lucky, but I love the book Holes.
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Summary: My children and I loved it!
Review: I read the first chapter of Holes to my third and fifth grader at bedtime the day school was out. We had two copies of the book, and by 7:00 the next day they had both finished it, and loved every minute of it. My daughter loved how it made her feel sad, happy, thirsty, and hot. She said Stanley really changed at the end because he trusted himself to carry Zero up the hill. In the beginning he probably wouldn't have even gone after Zero. The good friendship and self confidence he gained out in the desert were his great rewards. My son said the book was hilarious! He thought the twists and turns of fate were great. He especially loved that the spoiled canned peaches or "Sploosh" became a foot fungus reliever, and that the Warden's snake venom finger nail polish worked only when wet, and that Camp Green Lake eventually did become a Girl Scout Camp. The opposite of Stanley's bad luck came when, "In the end, Stanley had more hope that destiny was on his side. Climbing up the mountain with Zero gave him that hope." Reading this book gave us entertainment and a shared experience to talk about adversity, hope, friendship, and the human spirit. Thank you Louis Sacher. By the way, my son didn't want to pick up the book even though it was the '99 Newberry winner, until he noticed it was by Louis Sacher. Once he realized it was written by the author of the Wayside School, he knew he would like it, and did he ever!
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Summary: Lots of irony, and that's the great part!
Review: I absolutely loved this book. It had lots of irony, and that was the great part. I read this in class, and the first sentence I read on the first page really got me going. It was "There's no lake at camp green lake." It caught my attention, and i knew this was going to be a good book. And others, if you're just looking for a good book to read over the summer, then read The Giver by Louis Lowrey. The ending is kinda vague, but it lets you imagine, wonder, and explain to yourself the ending.
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Summary: Boring Read Says Teacher
Review: I thought that this book was just awful, and could not even finish it. I am about 100 pages away from the end and can't get myself to read it. The plot was ridiculously unusual, the characters obnoxious, and I highly discourage parents from having their children read it. I honestly don't understand how it won the Newbury Award...I guess that goes to show how awards aren't everything.
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Summary: What They Thought Was A Punishments
Review: What They Thought Was A Punishments Imagine living in a perfect world except for one thing everybody hates punishments. In the Camp Green Lake the punishment was to dig holes, well that's how they thought people should be punished. You are probably thinking what kind of author would write about an outrageous topic. Well the first person at the top of my head was focuses louis sachar. All that is in his mind is made up of is incredible and outrages topics even though it would never happen ,well in less you are the character Stanley. He was mistakenly for steeling a shoe and ends up in camp green lake where there's no lake. Not only has it won the John newberry. medal I really like the way he added two or three stories in the middle of the book and at the end he Johns or relates the stories together I also like the way he thinks like a kid I recommend it to children from ages 9and up
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