Holes

Reader reviewed by monica

Holes was a good book. I liked the idea of a bunch of people digging holes and the yellow spotted lizards I saw the movie but the book is better, much better.

mrs. Siorek's class

Reader reviewed by Rachael B.

This book was awesome !!!! I could never put it down.In the book I always thought it was funny when they blamed their grandpa! Stanley was really brave and he seemed nice!!

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.

Reader reviewed by Ronny

THIS BOOK IS GREAT!

Reader reviewed by Kyran

He slowed to a walk. As far as he could tell, nobody was chasing him. He could hear voices coming back by the truck but couldnt make out the words&

Stanley Yelnuts is a boy whose family hasnt had a long string of good luck. In fact, theyve had a long string of bad luck. Theyre always in the wrong spot at the wrong time. So when Stanley is accused of stealing a pair of shoes belonging to a famous runner who was about to auction them off, it came as no surprise. Stanley is sent to a camp for bad boys where the Warden forces them to dig holes the size of their shovel deep, wide and long. She says its to build character but theres another motive. Shes looking for something, what is it.

The characters in the book are very well thought out. Louis Sacher, the author of Holes, has thought them out well. We are told their background. Were even told some of their origins! Theyre funny, caring and very believable. All five stars for character development.

The setting, again, is very thought out. Everything fits into place. In the flashbacks, the surroundings are explained. In real time, the present, its all put into perspective.

Reader reviewed by Jolina

Holes is a wonderful and one of the best books I have ever read! It is amazing! You have no idea what you are missing. If you haven't read Holes yet, you better go to that local book store and buy one now before they're all out!!! Get it now!

Reader reviewed by Amanda

Holes was a very good book!!! The carecters were funny, and had good parts in the book. If you were going to read a book this would be the one that you should read. My teacher read it to the class and I read it on my own, it is very good. If you haven't read it you dont know what your missing!

Reader reviewed by Erin

There is one word I can use to describe this book: WOW! It is one of my favorite books in the world.

It's about a boy named Stanley Yelnats who gets off easy for stealing some shoes, even though he's not the one who stole them. He gets sent to a camp where they make you dig holes out in a dry lake. The warden says it's to punish the boys and build character, but she makes them do it for a whole other reason all together. I don't want to give the reason because it will give away the whole story.

At the end of the book, Stanley runs away with a friend (named Zero) to a mountain called God's Thumb. As you already know, dry lakes don't have water, so they find water on the mountain, and that's the only way they survive. As I said before, I highly recomend this book no matter who you are.

Reader reviewed by Chynne

I think it was a brilliant book! I loved reading it because it had some stuff I could relate to. It had characters that were caring and sometimes funny. Anyway I loved this book.

Reader reviewed by Liz

I loved it. I was so realistic. It was 2 stories in one. it told you about how the lake was before it became a dessart and why and after. but ends up breaking the cuirse set by that no good dirty rotten pig steelin Great Great Grandfather the day Stanley Yelnats carried Hector Zeroni up the mounten two drink from the streem while he sand the pig song.