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Summary: Holes
Review: Holes
Louis Sachar "My name is Stanley Yelants. I got put into Camp Green Lake because I was accused of stealing a famous baseball player called Sweet Feet's shoes. I really didn't do it though. When I got to camp Green Lake I noticed that there wasn't a lake there at all. It was a desert for miles and miles. I was told that there used to be a lake there. There were no fences, no gates or anything to stop me from running away. The reason was because there wasn't any water for miles and miles. Camp Green Lake had the only water. While I was at camp I met all the kids in my group, but there was one kid in it everybody called Zero, he didn't say much. His name was Zero because they said that he had nothing in his head. When we went out in the burning hot desert to did our holes he would always finish first. It took me a while to get used to it so I was really slow. The holes had to be as deep and as wide as your shovel all the way around the hole. Zero had seen me reading and writing a letter from and to my family. Zero didn't know how to read or write so he asked me if I could teach him. At first I said no because I had no time to do it. Then we talked and worked out a deal. It was that if he helped me dig part of my hole I would teach him to read and write. Zero and I had become pretty close friends. That went on for a while until Zero got mad because the workers who ran the camp were making fun of him because he wasn't smart. Zero ran away. I wasn't sure what I should do. After a couple of days I decided to go after Zero. That is when the big adventure began."
This book is the best book I have ever read. I usually don't want to read, but this book made me want to keep reading. Holes kept me excited all throughout the book.
I recommend Holes to anybody who likes an exciting book that is suspenseful and makes the reader want to keep reading.
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Summary: A good kids book
Review: Have you ever had to do dig a hole the height and length of a big shovel every day? Well this kid had to in this book.
This book is about a boy named Stanley Yelnats who goes to a boot camp because he accidentally took a pair of shoes that are worth 10,000 dollars. He has to dig holes every day for his payment. He can leave but it is in the middle of the desert. He made friends with a kid name Zero and he teaches him the alphabet and English if he digs his holes. So is he going to stay in the desert or is he going to leave?
I will give Holes a 5 star because it is my favorite book. I will recommend it for boys because it is about a boy. I like the author because he is a funny author and mostly the other books he writes are funny like the Wayside School series. I like the characters because they're funny and the main character has a weird name.
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Summary: Holes
Review: I really enjoyed this book. I am a girl and thought that this book would be for boys. However, one of the main characters was a women. This women character was in charge of all of the boys in a juvinile camp. It would be nice to be able to tell a group of mean boys what to do. The most interesting part of the book was how the characters were so tied together by their family history. It was full of action and kept me trying to untie all of the hidden parts of the story.
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Summary: a fan of Louis Sachar
Review: Stanley Yelnats and his family have bad luck because of his no - good - dirty - rotten - pig - stealing - great - great - grandfather a family joke that could happen to be real. Stanley was at the wrong place at the wrong time when a famous baseball players shoes fell from the sky and Stanley got accused for stealing when he picked them up. Because of this Stanley got sent to Camp Green Lake. Camp Green Lake is a camp for bad kids and every day you have to dig a five by five foot deep hole at 4:00 a.m. At Camp Green Lake Stanly meets X- ray, Squid, Armpit, Magnet, Zigzag, and Zero who becomes Stanley's closest friend. Read the book to find out what happens to Stanley and Zero in the in book Holes. If you like funny and serious books at the same time then you should read Holes. I grade this book a five star because this is without a doubt the best book I've ever read. Louis Sachar writes funny and serious books and I like those kinds of books a lot. In the book Holes the conflict is Stanley vs. the warden. The theme in this book is people who look bad really can be a nice person. I hope you will enjoy Louis Sachars - very -funny - well - written and extremely good book, Holes.
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Summary: this is what i think
Review: Hello my name is hayley and our class just finished reading holes. I am not much of a reading person, But i must say i loved this book this is a book i really would like to buy. I loved how everything came together right and how short the chapters where awsome! in class we had to do quetions on each set of chapters we had to read. Now that we are done the book we will be watching the movie tomorrow in class i can't wait! the one thing im not looking forward to is we have to do a final project and i don't no what to do. I don't really have many friends so im working alone. i was wondering maybe if you had any ideas i mean you rote this adventurus book. but hey if you dont have time its ok. well thats all for my review i loved your book i hope you write more books like this one i would for sure read it;) big book fan
Hayley B
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Summary: Holes
Review: When i first started reading the book holes it was very interesting.I couldn't put the book down and at the end of every chapter there was a cliffhanger.I rate this book 4 stars because it was fun and it had a lot of interesting facts about Stanley Yelants and his family life.Like the curse that his great-great grandfather gave him.THe book was also kind of sad because Stanley had to go to a juvenile detention camp for something he didn't do.While Stanley is at the juvenile detention camp, he has a hard time digging up the holes due to the incredible heat and the hard, dry land.While Stanley is there at the dry juvenile detention camp he makes new friends.His new frineds are,X-Ray,Zero,and many other new people.Zero becomes Stanley's new friend and later on in the story there friendship starts to build up and shares a great bond with each other.Then,towards the end Zero runs away from the camp, so Stanley follows Zero a few days later.Stanley then finds Zero sitting down on a rock,Zero is too weak.So Stanley helps Zero to reach the top of the mountain, which turns out to be the old onion field. Since Zero is very weak Stanley carries him up the mountain. For at least one week they survived on onions before returning to the juvenile.When both of them return to the camp, they dig up the same hole that they found the lipstick tube. Finally, after digging for so long they hit something.Which was a suitcase that had the name Stanley Yelants.A few seconds later the warden finds them and tries to grab the suitcase from them, but they manage to grab it before the warden could snatch it.Later on, Stanley finds out that the suitcase belonged to his great-grandfather who was also named Stanley Yelants.It turns out that the suitcase had many valuable things inside it, that Kate Barlow wanted to get.
I loved this book and it is one of my favorites, also there is also a movie about the book,but I think that the book is better. The movie also has little facts about Holes.
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Summary: Holes
Review: Holes
By: Louis Sachar
Reviewed by: M. Lee
Period 3
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse began with his great-great-grandfather known to be a thief, and the curse followed to Stanley. Stanley Yelnats is a boy who has been sent to Camp Green Lake because he was accused of stealing shoes. Camp Green Lake was a camp that made bad boys dig one big hole everyday, five feet wide and five feet deep. The warden of the camp was searching for a treasure that was buried over a hundred years ago and not found since then. Stanley had to dig holes along with the rest of the kids. He made friends there named X-rays, Barf Bag, Zero, and Squid. One of his closest friends, Zero, decided to runaway one day because he did not want to dig anymore holes. Stanley runs away to find him because Zero had no water of food to survive. Stanley found Zero and they survive by going to the Big Thumb. There, Stanley realizes where the treasure might be at. They come back to camp secretly and dig. Stanley and Zero finally find the treasure. All the people were surprised that they were still alive, and they found what the warden wanted to have, but the treasure box was not the warden¡¯s property. It was Stanley¡¯s because it had his name on it. It belonged to Stanley¡¯s great great grandfather. Stanley¡¯s lawyer came and took Stanley and Zero home. The story ended with Stanley¡¯s family curse broken by Stanley by finding the treasure. Camp Green Lake was closed down for good. I like this book because I think a good book allows the reader to feel like they want to know more and want to know what is going to happen next. This is how I felt as I read the book. I couldn¡¯t put the book down. Zero left the camp without water and food. ¡°Stanley looked out toward Zero, but he had disappeared into the haze.¡± When I read this, I was anxious to know what happened next because it was impossible to survive in the heat without water and food. Stanley was worried about what was going to happen to Zero, so he ran after him. He knew that Zero could not survive in the desert alone. This part of the story was exciting, which I liked about this book. It kept making me wonder what will happen next. I wanted to know if Stanley and Zero will survive.
Another reason why I like this book is because this book also talks about people from the past. Stanley¡¯s great great grandfather¡¯s story is told. During that time, there was a woman named Kate Barlow who was the prettiest girl in town. Many men liked her, but she liked a poor worker named Sam. She loved him, but he was so poor. Sam they decided to leave the town together. When they were leaving, someone saw them and killed Sam. After that, Kate became a thief. ¡°That was what his great grandfather had supposedly said after Kate Barlow had robbed him and left him stranded in the desert.¡± She was the one that stole from Stanley¡¯s great great grandfather which tied the story to Stanley¡¯s time because the warden was looking for that lost treasure that Kate had stolen. This interesting plot of how history plays a role in the present is why I liked this book so much.
There are many parts in this book that I like. My favorite part of the book was the story of Stanley and Zero¡¯s friendship. Stanley and Zero¡¯s friendship was the best. When Stanley and Zero ran away, they had no hope of surviving because they had no food or water, but they gave each other the strength to go on. They told each other, ¡°Don¡¯t give up.¡± They eventually found Big Thumb, where they found water and food to survive for a few days. They were each other¡¯s support during hard times. Stanley even risked his life to go search for Zero when he ran away. I thought that their friendship was a memorable part of this book that is why this is my favorite part.
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Summary: adult and child
Review: My son and I read this together when he was in third grade. We loved it. It's a sad and often horrible story of a boy who is sent to a 'camp' of sorts, rather than juvenile prison, but encounters horrors no parent would think of along the way to doing the time. The 'warden' of this 'camp' is a horror and criminal himself, though it takes all the boys there working together to show the evil. A wonderful story and great lesson too. Be good kids!
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Summary: holes
Review: Beyond all doubt this is one of the best books ever written. The book is about a boy called Stanley Yelnats (thats a palindrome, for those who know what a palindrome is) and his family has been eternaly cursed with bad luck. When Stanley is framed for stealing a baseball players shoes, he is sent to a camp called camp greenlake, and the last thing the place is is a lake. Like Stanley's family, the lake is eternaly cursed by having no rain for a hundred years. The camp supposedly builds character by having you dig- you guessed it- holes. Stanley then meets a boy, nicknamed zero by his peers. Sounds good? Well, combine this with a load full of relationships and you get a complex and stunning plot, which, as you may have guessed, is more than five feet deep. And on top of it is humor that is witty and maybe a bit 'dry'. I suggest sharing this book with parents so the whole family can enjoy. Plus, they're always good to ask questions to because the book is complex. I hope you enjoyed this must-read-can't-put-down book!
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Summary: Bad boys+holes=good boys
Review: "If you take a Bad boy and put him in the hot sun to dig holes it will turn him into a good boy" is the motto at camp Greenlake. Stanly Ylnats family has bad luck becasue of his no good dirty pig stealing great great grandfather. He is sent to camp Greenlake for "stealing" a pair of shoes when he is actually inocent. He is sent to camp Greenleake to teach him a lesso and when he comes out he is suppose to be a good boy, but when he comes back he is a Millionare.
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