Paperback, 272 pages

English language

Published Sept. 2, 2020 by Scholastic.

ISBN:
978-0-439-24419-0
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OCLC Number:
45069141

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4 stars (79 reviews)

Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.

It doesn’t take long for Stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption.Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now …

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Review of 'Holes' on 'Storygraph'

5 stars

So I read Holes and the Tumblr post was right!
From a technical perspective it's so cool and perfect! Every single thing comes back somehow or other, slevery little detail which you think is just for description or a joke.
YES, ESPECIALLY THE JOKES!
The reader keeps getting rewarded for each line of text they read previously and remember.
It's an amazing and beautiful book that makes you cry. It's about love, both romantic and platonic.
It's really smart, if you didn't get it already.
It's like a Chosen One book but not but yes.
The Chosen Ones come together to work together and break the curse on a land they don't even know that was cursed because of bad people a hundred years ago.
It's about destiny and love and doing the right thing and helping others and about children being harshly punished for things that they dd or …

Review of 'Holes ' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

I don't want to give anything away. So here's the deal. You know that great feeling you get when you finish reading a book that, in the end, all came together? This book does that in spades!

Never have I read a book that filled in all the "holes" and closed with no loose ends, no character left unaffected, no lingering mystery or feeling of loss, until I read "Holes" by Louis Sacher.

The intro had me a bit worried because I thought the book would be about something else, but the beginning was so well written and interesting that I plunged right in. Then we meet Stanley, and it gets even more interesting from there.

This book drew a lot out of my own childhood, or childhood thoughts. The perspective and events may not have been exactly what you or I have been through, but we were all young …

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Subjects

  • Homeless persons
  • Treasure troves
  • Buried treasure
  • Juvenile fiction
  • Juvenile delinquency
  • Friendship
  • Fiction

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