“Holes” is a thrilling story about a juvenile camp called Camp Green Lake that was once a beautiful lake in Texas but now it has transformed into a scorching hot desert, suffering from an eternal drought. Ill behaved kids are sent to camp Green Lake to dig 5 feet wide by five feet deep holes every day until they are released back home. This book is an exciting, adventurous tale, with everything you need to have for an award winning novel.
Stanley Yelnats IV is a young boy from Texas with a fascinating family history, ever since his great, great grandfather turned his back on a fortune teller named madam Zeroni; the Yelnats family has had bad luck, generation after generation. Now the bad luck has moved to a new level when Stanley Yelnats IV was wrongly accused of a crime he did not commit. He is sent to a juvenile camp called Camp Green Lake, which was once a beautiful lake with vegetation and life, but is now a scorching hot desert and the only life there is the extremely venomous yellow spotted lizard. Stanley earns himself the nickname caveman and meets a young boy named Hector Zeroni (who everybody calls Zero). Stanley agrees to give zero reading lessons (because he spent most of his life on the streets) in exchange for zero to dig a little bit of Stanley’s hole every day. After one of the camp instructors Mr. Pendanski discriminates Zero for not being able to read, Zero bashes him in the face with a shovel and runs for his life into the scorching desert. A couple of days after Stanley goes after him and finds him miles out helpless and dehydrated. Stanley and Zero hike up a gigantic rock in the search of water and plantation. By the time the two reach the top, Zero is unconscious on Stanley’s back. To Stanley’s relief and surprise, they find a small pond and an onion field at the very top. The book wraps up when Stanley’s luck changes from bad to good and he finds what they have really been digging for.
The aspect of this book that made it most enjoyable was how real it was. There weren’t any dragons or evil sorcerers thriving to take over the world, but instead Sachar used real things like outlaws and venomous snakes What Holes lacked in action, it made up for in excitement. Normally I would rather watch television than read a book, but once I read this I had a whole new opinion on books.
Sachar’s style of writing was extremely interesting, he tended to explain everything to full detail, when reading Holes it felt as though I was really at Camp Green Lake, digging holes in the scorching heat of Texas.
Holes was an extraordinarily exciting novel to read, with each chapter leaving you on the edge full of suspense. Now i sit at home eagerly awaiting the arrival of Holes 2 or something along the lines of that.
Stanley Yelnats IV is a young boy from Texas with a fascinating family history, ever since his great, great grandfather turned his back on a fortune teller named madam Zeroni; the Yelnats family has had bad luck, generation after generation. Now the bad luck has moved to a new level when Stanley Yelnats IV was wrongly accused of a crime he did not commit. He is sent to a juvenile camp called Camp Green Lake, which was once a beautiful lake with vegetation and life, but is now a scorching hot desert and the only life there is the extremely venomous yellow spotted lizard. Stanley earns himself the nickname caveman and meets a young boy named Hector Zeroni (who everybody calls Zero). Stanley agrees to give zero reading lessons (because he spent most of his life on the streets) in exchange for zero to dig a little bit of Stanley’s hole every day. After one of the camp instructors Mr. Pendanski discriminates Zero for not being able to read, Zero bashes him in the face with a shovel and runs for his life into the scorching desert. A couple of days after Stanley goes after him and finds him miles out helpless and dehydrated. Stanley and Zero hike up a gigantic rock in the search of water and plantation. By the time the two reach the top, Zero is unconscious on Stanley’s back. To Stanley’s relief and surprise, they find a small pond and an onion field at the very top. The book wraps up when Stanley’s luck changes from bad to good and he finds what they have really been digging for.
The aspect of this book that made it most enjoyable was how real it was. There weren’t any dragons or evil sorcerers thriving to take over the world, but instead Sachar used real things like outlaws and venomous snakes What Holes lacked in action, it made up for in excitement. Normally I would rather watch television than read a book, but once I read this I had a whole new opinion on books.
Sachar’s style of writing was extremely interesting, he tended to explain everything to full detail, when reading Holes it felt as though I was really at Camp Green Lake, digging holes in the scorching heat of Texas.
Holes was an extraordinarily exciting novel to read, with each chapter leaving you on the edge full of suspense. Now i sit at home eagerly awaiting the arrival of Holes 2 or something along the lines of that.
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