Holes Book Review Summary

Stanley is an overweight and unlucky boy who was caught with a pair of sneakers belonging to a famous baseball player who intended to auction them off for charity and he has been sentenced to time at camp green lake.

Holes book review summary. Plot overview sparknotes. Stanley s great great grandfather did not honor a promise he made to an old woman with magical powers and. Holes holes 1 louis sachar.

Stanley yelnats a boy who has bad luck due to a curse placed on his great great grandfather is sent to camp green lake a juvenile detention camp for a crime he did not commit. Parents need to know that louis sachar s holes is a funny moving and sometimes violent story that has an edge kids really respond to. Holes is a 1998 young adult mystery comedy novel written by louis sachar and first published by farrar straus and giroux.

Holes is a novel by louis sachar that was first published in 1998. This is the first book by louis sachar that i have read. Parents may want to talk to their children about the unfairness of stanley s life and the cold hearted viciousness of some of the characters.

Stanley yelnats iv is a 14 year old boy from a hard working but poor family. And there s a great audiobook version read by kenny beyer. Stanley yelnats was the only passenger on the bus not counting the driver or the guard.

The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. Stanley and the other boys at the camp are forced to dig large holes in the dirt every day. The yelnats family is said to be cursed.

Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment and redemption. Holes by louis sachar review it s full of adventure and questions and had me up reading for most of the night desperate to find out what happens g o o g l e y e y e s sat 5 oct 2013 07 00 edt. The book was adapted for a 2003 movie.