Holes (Thorndike Large Print Young Adult Seires)

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Summary: By an excellen author
Review: This is an excellent book by the aouthor of, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Louis Sachar is a gifted man with a touch for writing. Once you start reading Holess, you will not stop. I guarantee it. ( That is, unless you really HAVE to stop.) I've read this book over 3 times and I must say, that it is the best book that Sachar has written, This book is about Stanley Yelnats, a boy that was falsley accused of stealing a famous baseball player's tennis shoes. He goes to Camp Greenlake for punishment of what he didn't do. Every day, Stanley has to dig a hole, 5 feet across, and 5 feet vertically. When Stanley has been there for quite a while, he realizes that the kids at camp Greenlake aren't just digging to build character, but for something else! Can Stanley find out in time? Will he survive when he runs away? Find out in this amazing, dazzling book!

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Summary: Holes (the great book)
Review: I read Holes in my 4th grade class with my awsome teacher. I thought that this book was going to be really stupid, but it turned out that it was the best book I've read in a long time. It is a unique book, but I think that you will really love it.

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Summary: Worthy of the Newberry Award
Review: This book made my hands keep on to the cover. I couldn't put it down. This is better than the Harry Potter Books and should be read by all. It is suspensful and nerve-wraking. It was full of adventure. Read this book.

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Summary: Surprise in the bottom of a hole
Review: I read this book to my 8th grade classes as part of their Read Aloud time, and they soon wanted the whole period for the book. It caught them with the contemporary situation in which Stanley found himself, and held them with the real boys under the touch guy images. There are many instances of foreshadowing so the reader wonders what will happen and hang on to every word to discover if their predictions come to pass. It will become evident why the boys are digging the holes, and they discover the kind of treasure that isn't buried in the ground...friendship and perseverance. This book will be on my bookshelf every year.

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Summary: Even Lower Readers Love The Zany Caveman!
Review: I am a special education teacher for a middle school. I used this book along with the unabridged audio tape to increase my students litening skills. They could not wait to here of the zany happenings of the main character Stanley. His nickname at the detention center is caveman. It is great seeing how a group of boys interact when they are in the most trying of places and how they all stick together. You will never guess the ending and can't wait to get there. My students hated when I had to turn off the tape. I recommend this book for all middle school aged students and the audio book is very well done.

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Summary: Incredibly inventive !
Review: My 11 year old daughter and I both loved this book. Its a totally unique piece of fiction, that really captures the imagination. I'd recommend it to boys and girls in the 10-12 age group (all the main characters in the book are boys). To describe it would take away all the fun of reading it and discovering the story, except to say that it's the story of a boy who finds himself in difficult circumstances for no fault of his own, but his own inner goodness and strength bring him through it. It's in a genre all it's own. I think that because it happens in a present day setting, kids can read it and relate to it due to the great story telling. If you want your child exposed to some non-traditional fiction, this book is it. No doubt that's why it won the Newberry Medal. Our daughter's teacher recommended it to the 5th grade class.

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Summary: This was almost as good as Harry Potter!
Review: i absolutely loved this book. it must have been kind of weird to have a father who is trying to find out a way to rycycle old sneakers... anyway, this book is about a boy named stanley yelnats (which is spelled the same way forward and backward). he has to go to a kids detention place because he was accused of something that he did not do. at this place he has to dig a 5 foot hole everyday, starting at 430 in the morning. a lot later in the book they find out that he was fausley accused... in one part of the book he gets poisened by the wardens rattle snake nail polish, and in another part of the book he gets bitten by a whole bunch of deathly poisonis red-eyed-lizards. This book is great for all ages, and i hope that whoever reads this review that has not read this book yet will be convinced to read it... you can find it at your poblic library or bookstore.

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Summary: Holes
Review: The book holes is more or less a book for teens, not for those who consider themselves to be young adults. The main idea of the book is that a boy gets sent to juvenile camp for a crime he does not commit, then as punishment he and the other boys in the camp are forced to dig holes five feet deep by five feet wide. One of the main ideas that I notice is corruption in a corrections facility. All the guards seem to be corrupt, as well as the warden who is an evil woman for she is the reason for the digging. I can compare this story to a movie called the Shawshank Redemption.In it, a man is convicted for a crime he did not commit, the warden, the guards are corrupt, a person in the facility knows that he did it, and that person is sought after by the warden to be silenced. I recommend this book to readers who like books about kids who go from the bottom to the top.

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Summary: 9999999999999999999999999999 Stars!
Review: Holes was a very great book and deserved more than 5 stars! It's very funny and interesting. My nose was buried in the book. I finished this book in about 2 days, and if I could, I would read it non-stop! This is one of my favorite books and I just couldn't put it down. I've read it 2 times and reading it a third. I'm not sick of it and I never will be! It's the greatest story ever! When I first saw the cover, it didn't look very interesting. But when I read the book, I saw that I was wrong! I recommend it to parents and children who want to read an interesting book.

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Summary: What lies in the holes?
Review: Stanley Yelnats is sure that he comes from a family of bad luck when he is convicted of a crime that he didn't commit. He is sent to Camp Green Lake, which is a misnomer because the lake has dried up hundreds of years ago. There is no escaping the camp because there is no civilization, food, or water for miles around. Then, his friend Zero does escape because he can't take being at the camp anymore, and Stanley goes after him, creating additional challenges and adventures. This book was excellent because it shows that when Stanley thought he was in a terrible situation, he was able to make friends, uncover secrets about his family and the camp, and become a much stronger person. I recommend this book to others because it is fiction and fantasy-like, but the story was so realistic that it really seemed like it could happen. The story was very interesting and I was never bored for one second while reading it. Once you pick it up, you can't stop because it is so suspenseful.