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Reader reviewed by HawkeyeRob

If you havent read Louis Sachars excellent novel Holes yet, do so before the movie comes out later this month. This Newberry Medal-winning story is a great read, and like most great books, has the potential for becoming either a great movie along the lines of Tuck Everlasting or the Harry Potter films, or it could rank up there with some of the all-time great book-to-movie disasters.

Stanley Yelnats, the protagonist of Holes, believes that he has been cursed because of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great great grandfather. That certainly seems to be true after he is falsley accused and convicted of stealing a famous baseball players shoes and sent to Camp Green Lake, where teenage inmates spend each day digging a hole six feet wide and six feet deep. Stanley is told that digging holes builds character, but he soon discovers they are really digging because the warden wants them to find something.

Holes is a funny book full of mystery and wonderful characters. If the movie is half as good as the novel, it will one day be regarded as a classic.