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Summary: A very good book. Holes definitly deserves five stars.
Review: It starts out as two parellel lines stanleys family history and stanleys personal life and as the story goes onthey arn't that parellel anymore It all starts when Stanley Yelnats Finds a pair of shoes. unfortunatly they were stolen from sweet feet a famous person. He gets caught and goes to trial and gets two choices to go to camp greenlake or to go to jail. He chooses to go to camp greenlake which was the bad choice. he has to dig a hole five feet deep and five feet in diameter,and get four minute showers.I won't tell you the rest of the book. I recommend this book to everybody who can read. Buy the book and read it now!
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Summary: Holes
Review: I thought this book was interesting. It dares to go and be what it wants. Buy it NOW
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Summary: 1998 National Book Award Winner!
Review: A well written book worthy of its award. It has a thick plot and interesting characters. You'll never want to put HOLES down!
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Summary: A Newberry Candidate
Review: This was the best book I ever read! I could have read it in one day if I could. This is definitely Sachar's best ever. If you find this book good or bad you should e-mail me at the adress below. I want your comments!
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Summary: A Newbery Contender!
Review: Stanley Yelnats...notice the last name is the first name spelled backwards...can't seem to catch a break. This is the story of coincidences! Stanley's family has been unlucky since his great grandfather was robbed and kissed by Kate, "The Kissing Bandit" in the 1800s in Texas, and lost the family treasure...which as it happens... is still missing. When a miscarriage of justice sends Stanley to a "camp" for wayward boys...nothing violet...Stanley's not surprised. At camp each boy must dig a hole everyday. The warden says it's to build character, but Stanley is digging to find the truth. It's funny,when you begin to see the how Stanley's path will eventually cross that of his great grandfather's. Inserted every so often is a chapter about what happened in Stanley's past so the reader can understand why things are happening to him now. It took me a while to see the connection, but when I did, I smiled and realized that everything was going to turn out OK for Stanley, his family, and his friend, Zero.
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Summary: Classic....
Review: Holes is one of my favorite books...Stanley Yelnats...man youll feel bad for this poor guy. The characters in this book are great...and so funny.
Zero was my favorite character even though I found him a little annoying. The book has a great story and a great ending. If you like books with dark humer...I guess this book has dark humer and a great story get HOLES..The movie is also great.... Check it out...It's really good. 5/5... Later...
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Summary: Holes
Review: Holes
By Louis Sachar
Deep in the heart of Texas, in the middle of the hot desert lies Camp Green Lake. There's no lake at Camp Green Lake, now it's all dried up. Why this lake is dried up, the crazy characters and a secret that is too big to keep hidden flow into this great and zany tale called "Holes".
From the author of "Wayside Stories from Wayside School", and " A Boy in the Girl's Bathroom" comes an inspiring tale about a boy named Stanley Yelnats. Stanley's family is under a curse that always gives them bad luck. The reason that they are under this curse is because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig- stealing-great-great grandfather. This is one reason I love this book: it's zany, weird, silly, but it doesn't get off topic or too wild. Like in an ordinary manner this book makes you laugh, and even cry. When Stanley is wrongly accused of a crime, he is sent to a boy's detention center: Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by digging holes, five feet deep, five feet wide. As I said there's no lake at Camp Green Lake, but there are lots of holes. It doesn't take long for Stanley to notice there's more than character improvement going on at camp. The Warden, the lady who runs Camp Green Lake, is definitely looking for something, but what is she looking for? What can be under a dried up lake? Read the book and you are sure to find out. Camp Green Lake is filled with dangerous characters like the warden. Mr. Pendanski, Stanley's consoler or Mr. Sir the warden's minion. The number one rule is: "Don't upset the warden." But that's kind of hard for boys of D-tent who above all thins love trouble. The boys who live with Stanley in Tent-D [Armpit, Zigzag, Magnet, X-ray, Squid, Caveman (Stanley) and Zero] are some of the weirdest kids I've ever seen. Each of the boy's nicknames tell about them and their personalities. My favorite is Zero who is shorter than the rest and never talks. People call him Zero because they say he has nothing in his head, which is not true. This story mixes three parts together at a time. From the story at Camp Green Lake, an old western tale, and the story of Stanley's great-great grandfather, these tales come together into an answer for this jigsaw puzzle of a book. So to find the secret of Camp Green Lake and what will happen to Stanley and his friends, please read this award-winning tale.
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Summary: Dig Holes
Review: Books just don't get any better than this one. People say that J.K. Rowling is the next Roald Dahl, but in my opinion, it's Louis Sachar all the way.
Holes is about a boy, Stanley Yelnats, who is sentenced to a juvenile reform institution in which the boys are expected to dig holes in the desert all day, every day. This forced labor has an ulterior motive; the falsely-nice Mr. Pendanski, the ornery Mr. Sir, and the fearsome female Warden are seeking a treasure that they suspect is buried in the area.
There are a lot of flashbacks in this book that bring together storylines involving Stanley's ancestors, all of whom have labored under a family curse brought about by a forgetful great-great grandfather in Europe. Sachar has a lot of fun bringing these disparate elements together, and in integrating a theme involving onions and peaches.
The flashbacks have the feel of a fairy tale; the current events are filled with hardship and wicked adults who seem to delight in abusing their charges.
Despite the bleak outlook that life seems to present to Stanley, he finds himself actually enjoying Camp Greenlake in a way, because it's the first time that he's ever made friends with his peers.
This is a book that accomplishes many goals simultaneously, and does it well. Entertaining, touching, funny and sad all at once, Sachar also moves us through a fairly complex plot with a master's touch.
This book is a guarantee. Anyone who picks it up and reads it will be delighted that they made the investment.
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Summary: Holes
Review: The book Holes is one of the best books that I have ever read because every page set an image in my head of what was going on. So I never lost intrest. I have read this book two times and am planing to read it again. It is the best book ever. Every kid will love this book as much as I did!
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