Holes by Louis Sachar

Subject: Holes by Louis Sachar Thu Apr 16, 2009 2:22 pm

Stanley Yelnats was given a choice. The judge said, "You may go to jail, or you may go to Camp Green Lake." Stanley was from a poor family. He had never been to camp before.

And so, Stanley Yelnats seems set to serve an easy sentence, which is only fair because he is as innocent as you or me. But Stanley is not going where he thinks he is. Camp Green Lake is like no other camp anywhere. It is a bizarre, almost otherworldly place that has no lake and nothing that is green. Nor is it a camp, at least not the kind of camp kids look forward to in the summertime. It is a place that once held "the largest lake in Texas," but today it is only a scorching desert wasteland, dotted with countless holes dug by the boys who live at the camp.

The trouble started when Stanley was accused of stealing a pair of shoes donated by basketball great Clyde "Sweetfeet" Livingston to a celebrity auction. In court, the judge doesn't believe Stanley's claim that the shoes fell from the sky onto his head. And yet, that's exactly what happened. Oddly, though, Stanley doesn't blame the judge for falsely convicting him. Instead, he blames the whole misadventure on his "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather." Thanks to this benighted distant relative, the Yelnats family had been cursed for generations. For Stanley, his current troubles are just a natural part of being a Yelnats.

At Camp Green Lake, the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. 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 treacherous warden is searching for something, and before long Stanley begins his own search—for the truth.

Fate conspires to resolve it all—the family curse, the mystery of the holes, the drought that destroyed Green Lake, and also, the legend of Kissing Kate Barlow, an infamous outlaw of the Wild West. The great wheel of justice has ground slowly for generations, but now it is about to reveal its verdict.

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:25 pm

i have seen the movie

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Fri Apr 17, 2009 11:48 am

yea the movie was really good too the book and the movie were pretty similar pig

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Fri Apr 17, 2009 3:55 pm

ive seen the movie and i tried to read the book but i just couldnt get into it

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Fri Apr 17, 2009 5:10 pm

lol. i probably wont read it

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Mon Apr 20, 2009 12:01 pm

ok the book and the movie were like identicle

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Tue Apr 21, 2009 9:10 pm

lolz i noticed that in the part that i read

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Wed Apr 22, 2009 2:06 pm

yea the book was alright but i didnt know if you guys had read it lol at least your honest and said that your not going to read it

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Wed Apr 22, 2009 8:05 pm

lolz yea i hate people who are like ooo i want to read that but then they dont even want to it gets annoying its like wtf i wont get like mad if u say u odnt want to read it

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:52 am

yea exactly i know what you mean that happens all the time

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:54 pm

ikr im just all like urgg

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Mon Apr 27, 2009 12:01 pm

yea its so stupid that they would be like oooo im gunna read it and then you ask them if they read it and they would be like i never said that i would read it

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Mon Apr 27, 2009 8:02 pm

that is gay.. i probably wont get to reading half of these books that u guys have posted but i want to and i will try

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Tue Apr 28, 2009 11:48 am

yea same here im going to the book store this weekend im thinking of getting blue bloods and the second book in the house of night series

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:02 pm

lolz im tryign to request these books but like i have liek literally a list!

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Tue Apr 28, 2009 5:43 pm

lol nice

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Wed Apr 29, 2009 2:04 pm

Kristal wrote:: lolz im tryign to request these books but like i have liek literally a list!

yea I have a list to im just waiting to get them all

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Sat May 02, 2009 2:59 pm

my mom wont take me to the library

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Tue May 05, 2009 11:49 am

im going to the book store this weekend and im working saturday so ill have more money to get some books

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Sat May 09, 2009 10:54 am

thats cool i had like 3 books in at the library but i forgot to tell my mom so i never went and got them...now i have to wait all over to get them again Sad

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Sun May 10, 2009 4:53 pm

ugh that sucks

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Sat Jun 20, 2009 8:33 pm

aww poor Kristal

Subject: Re: Holes by Louis Sachar Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:38 am