Stanley Yelnats is unlucky. His family is cursed. It is all the fault of his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great grandfather for breaking a promise. Because Stanley was in the wrong place at the wrong time, he is sent to Camp Green Lake. A camp that is not a camp nor is it green or a lake. It is a detention facility in the Texas desert. Every morning, the boys detained arise at 4;30 AM to dig a 5 foot wide and 5 foot deep hole in the desert; one boy, one hole. Stanley’s story is interwoven with the pig-stealing-great- great grandfather’s story in Latvia and in the United States, his great grandfather and the story of Kissing Kate Barlow in Green Lake, when it was green and a lake. Eventually, Stanley figures out that all the hole digging is not just about building character; the warden is looking for something. All the strands of the story are woven together in the satisfying conclusion of Holes by Louis Sachar .
Holes was awarded the 1999 Newbery Medal. This is another book that has been a favorite in my family. It will keep your child turning the pages to find out what happens next.
The Sonoma County Library has many copies of this book as well as audio recordings and copies of the Disney movie made from the book.
The AR level is 4.6, the test is worth 7 points and Yulupa has the test.
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