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Summary: "A Great Read"
Review: My favorite book is Holes by Louis Sachar. Holes is a fun book to read because you never can put it down, because of all the funny parts. This book is funny, because of how he gets to camp Green lake. I love this book because of the dangerous yellow-spotted lizards they are always looking out for. The final reason you should read this book is because the author put a spell on his book to make you think you were there. One example is when he was digging, he was sweating so hard that you could feel the burn from the heat of the sun. Those were the reason I like it and I think you will, too.
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Summary: A great book
Review: Holes, A book by Louis Sachar , would probably have to be my favorite book for many reasons. First of all, I like this book because it's about kids. I like books about kids because I am one. The next reason I like this book is because all the characters have nicknames like Zero, Barfbag, and Zigzag. The last and final reason I like this book is because it's just a funny, relaxing, enjoyable book, The book may make you cry or may make you laugh whatever the reason you'll like it. Hopefully, you can see that Holes is my favorite book, and if you'll take the time to read it, it may be yours, too.
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Summary: Holes An Adventurous Book
Review: My favorite book Holes, written by Louis Sachar, is a very wonderful book. This book is about a young boy named Stanley. Stanley has done something very bad and has to go to Camp Green Lake. Camp Green Lake is a camp where boys go when they have done something bad. This camp has no lake. Every boy has you dig one hole each day five feet wide and five feet deep. This books tells about Stanley's adventurous and miserable time at the camp. One reason this is my favorite book is because I like books with adventure, and this book has plenty. One example is when Stanley and his friend X-ray, walked across the dried up lake searching for the mountain that they thought had food and water. Another is when Stanley decided to go out on his own looking for X-ray who ran away. The last example is when X-ray and Stanley went out at night and tried to dig for a buried treasure the Camp Warden was looking for. The next reason I enjoy this book is because I love Stanley's personality. He is always willing to help someone in need. He even offered to help teach one of his friends to read and write. Stanley is also very caring. His friend X-ray stole some sunflower seeds. Stanley said he was the one that stole the seeds. He risked getting into trouble for this when his friend was the one who did it. Last, Stanley is just the kind of guy I would want to be around. Finally, the last reason why I picked Holes as my favorite book was because I liked how the story ended. The ending was very happy and creative. It's not not one of the endings where you cry, or wonder what happens next. It made me close the book happily. These are just a few of the reasons I enjoyed this book. In conclusion, Holes is my favorite book.
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Summary: The Best Book Ever
Review: My favorite book I recommend to you is Holes by Louis Sachar. It's about This boy named Stanley Yelnats. Stanley is falsely accused of stealing a valuable,donated to a homeless shelter to help raise money. Stanley therefore is forced to Camp Green Lake to dig a 5 foot hole everyday until he learns self discipline.
Little does Stanley know he's going to make a friend named Zero (he is the one who everyone believes knows zero about everything.) First of all, I think the Warden is one of those mysterious, strange types. She created the dry lake Camp so she
could find some treasure that was buried long ago. Man, was she right! Another reason I like this book is because, Sachar put so many sensory details in this novel. For example, Sam would call out, " Fresh, sweet, hot onions 10 for one dollar's worth of green bills." I also liked how this book starts off interesting. It doesn't get interesting half way through the book and wastes your time. Instead it starts off thrilling and exciting on the very first page. Fourth, I like how the book reveals mystery throughout the book. Next you'll like how this book is funny, yet clever parts in it. For example, have you noticed Stanley's last name is his first spelt backwards . Finally, this paragraph should help you find the best book in the library, Holes by Louis Sachar.
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Summary: Awesome Book!!!
Review: I would recomend this book for all ages. This book was about a kid named Stanley Yelnats (Yelnats is Stanley spelled backwards) who is charged for stealing Clyde Livington's shoes. But he really did not. Stanley had to chose to go to prison or to Camp Green Lake. Camp Green Lake was where kids who did bad thing had chosen to go. What you did at Camp Green Lake was you would dig holes. You dig holes so that you can build up on your character. Each hole had to be 5 feet deep and as long as your shovel(which was probably 5 inches long). Stanley was not the only one that was at Camp Green Lake. There were other kids there to. Stanley and the other kids got up early in the moring. The kids had told Stanley that the first hole had benn the hardest to dig. As the days, weeks, and months went by Stanley and his friends had figured out that the Warden ( the person in charge) had been making the kids dig holes for some other reason and not to build character. She had been making them dig holes so that she could find a suitcase full of money or riches. then one day Stanley had dug up something. It was... the suitcase. just then the Warden came out. What will happen to Stanley? Will he give the suitcase to the Warden? Find out when you read this awesome book Holes!!!
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Summary: Best book ever!
Review: I love Holes! The first time I read the book was in the fourth grade and I have read it twice since. Everything is downhill for poor Stanley Yelnats, his family is poor and always has bad luck(a curse put on his family many years ago),he is convicted of a crime he didn't commit, forced to dig holes everyday, sunburn, and the treat of nasty little lizards. Sure he makes friends, but still misses home. The court gave him a choice of jail or Camp Green Lake. He ended up as a slave in a hot, barren desert, when one day his gets enough courage to run away with another camper. With no water for hundreds of miles, you think they'd soon die, but they don't. They find stores of onions underground and a spring at the top of a mountain. In the end all your questions are answered. Will they ever see thery're families again? What were they digging for? Why is the camp owner so mean? Will the family curse be lifted?
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Summary: What a traumatizing experience!
Review: I read Holes tonight after my fourth grader brought it home from school today. She had described a little bit of the plot this week and I was appalled by what she was describing. After reading the book myself, I am even more horrified that our school has used this book as a 'reading' book that the whole class did together. I came online to find out what others thought about the book and I kept finding words such as 'humerous' and 'comedic'. Somehow I missed the humor in the descriptions of anti-social behavior in most of the characters. In addition, the violence really bothered me. When the Warden purposefully paints her nails with snake venom and slaps and scratches Mr. Sir, and then calmly watches as he writhes in agony...when Mr. Sir, in turn, smashes a teens head up against an oatmeal pot and chokes him when the teen dares to notice his mutiliated face...when Mr. Sir pours out Stanleys water, when Stanley is significantly dehydrated, in reprisal for seeing Mr. Sir's humiliation with the Warden...the Warden stabs Armpit with a pitchfork and 3 holes and blood appear on his shirt as he falls into a hole up to 5 feet deep...Sam's murder...Kiss me Kate shooting the sheriff, and in a macabre fashion, kissing him with red lipstick freshly applied to her lips...Kate Barlow's black and blistered feet as she was forced to continue walking or she would get whacked with the shovel...the shooting of Mary Lou...Zigzag provoking and beating up Stanley...Zigzag smashing Stanley in the head with a shovel. This is, by no means, a complete inventory.Now on to the ugly relationship dynamics...The abusive, traumatic dynamics between the adults in the book and the teens...and between the teens and each other. The message that adults are ignorant & unprotective (Stanley's parents), abandoning (Zero's Mom), or overtly abusive (Warden, Mr. Sir), or, if you dare trust them as one might want to do with Mr. Pendanski, they will just turn around and betray you as he did at the end (he was one of the most ruthless adults in the end). There are too many other well-written books out there to settle for this kind of traumatic read. Just because a book is "well-written" does not make it a worthwhile to read. I will be going in for a parent-teacher conference tomorrow and I will sharing my perceptions of this book with the teacher.
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Summary: A book that is truly a MUST READ!
Review: Holes, a brilliant book, is about Stanley Yelnats, who is accused of stealing a pair of shoes. Although the shoes just "fell out of the sky", Stanley chose Camp Green Lake instead of jail for a punishment. Stanley, who finds that Camp Green Lake doesn't have a lake, starts to dig 5 by 5 by 5 feet holes once a day, every day, for 180 days. He makes friends with his roomates, X-ray and Zero. But soon he discovers that he isn't digging holes for "character improvement", because the warden is obviously looking for something. Stanley is in for the biggest adventure of his life.
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Summary: Moms of advanced readers - get this book
Review: My excellent 8 year old reader can never find enough appropriate books for her age that are challenging enough for her reading ability. This one hits the spot (or should I say "hole"?) It is realistic enough to be exciting, without raising issues I am not ready for her to read about yet. I preview her books now because I've been burned by some books I thought would be okay. (Look out for Tamora Pierce's popular series that has the protaganist sleeping with several young men, for example.)We both loved it, and we had some great discussions about friendship, family and poverty after she finished. This book is a keeper.
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Summary: Digging the first hole is always the hardest!
Review: Imagine being sent away to a juvenile detention center to find that life there is nothing but digging holes. That is what Stanley realizes when he is sent to Camp Green Lake, which to his disbelief is not green, and in fact has no lake! It is his only alternative to jail because he is accused of stealing a famous baseball player's shoes, a player named "Sweet Feet", but blames it on his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather." He knows he is innocent, but despite his despair, Stanley is quickly enmeshed in the camp's routine and learns how to get along with his fellow diggers, the boys in Group D, in his tent. They fear the warden, but who wouldn't be considering she wears a fingernail polish made of rattlesnake venom! They also fear the vast and barren desert they are surrounded by which reminds them everyday that they would never get far if they run away. As Stanley digs his holes each day, exactly 5 feet by 5 feet, no less, he ponders the real reasons for these holes. He realizes that the boys are not just digging to build character- that in fact the warden is seeking something special- and from that point on the plot gets as interesting as it is ironic. The book Holes, by Louis Sachar is a story of triumph over despair for Stanley Yelnats. A 14 year old boy wrongly accused of theft learns how to make the best of his chronically bad situations. I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in a motivational and touching story. Extending yourself to help your fellow man is a reward in itself. Stanley's compassion and kindness towards another youth helped to destroy a generation's curse, while bringing a new look on life to the reader.
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