frenchcookie49 reviewed Holes by Louis Sachar
red string of fate
4 stars
Red string of fate tries to kill two kids, more at 11.
231 pages
English language
Published Jan. 6, 2001 by Dell Laurel-Leaf.
4 stars
(10 reviews)
As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Subjects
- Juvenile delinquency -- Juvenile fiction
- Homeless persons -- Juvenile fiction
- Friendship -- Juvenile fiction
- Treasure troves -- Juvenile fiction
- Juvenile delinquency -- Fiction
- Homeless persons -- Fiction
- Friendship -- Fiction
- Buried treasure -- Fiction