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Title: Holes by Louis Sachar ISBN: 0-440-41480-6 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 09 May, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (2453 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Whole - Complete
Comment: Yep. It's just that good. Every school in this country is reading this book. Every booklist recommends it. Every child has or will know its plot before they grow old. It is simple. It is a classic. It is brilliant. It is "Holes".
So what's the big deal about this story? Anyone reading the plot will puzzle over the commendations it has received. In it, Stanley Yelnats (note that his name is spelled the same, backwards and forwards) is sent to Camp Green Lake for a crime he did not commit. At a detention camp in the middle of a desert, Stanley must dig a hole as long, wide, and deep as his shovel every day. Along with his compatriots he seems to be searching for something. But what?
The book follows Stanley, a fat white boy, and the variety of different kinds of people he finds himself encamped with. After reading this book, my husband commented that it is a small encapsulation of white America's current state of slavery and the apologies we should make. At first I couldn't see it. Now I can. In the climax of this story Stanley carries Zero, an African American youth abandoned by his mother, up a mountain fulfilling a curse placed on the Yelnats from generation to generation. The camp itself is simply a slave state for kids that no one wants or cares about. Themes of illiteracy and assumptions about what people can and can not learn are brought up.
The book is deceptively simple. It reads particularly well for young readers but contains themes and thoughts larger than I thought you could place in a book so small. It will not date. It will only grow more interesting over time.
Rating: 5
Summary: fall in the hall of Louis Sachar
Comment: To be honest, none of you out there like reading textbooks and novels that your teachers assign you right? (Nod your head. so this is when you throw away those and start to look for something else that will actually entertain you, like this book, holes. Stanley Yelnats is cursed because his no good dirty rotten pig stealing great-great-grandfather, a curse was given from a fortune teller, Madame Zeroni, the curse was the Yelnats family and the offspring. One day while Stanley was walking home, a pair of stinky shoes fell on him, so he brought it home, his dad at the moment was thinking a use of old shoes, so he took the pair of shoe as a experiment too; but by accident, the shoe that fell from the sky burned up and causing awful odor. Their neighbors come in rage and ask them to clean up the mess or else they will have to move. Later on day Stanley was arrested by the police due to the fact that the shoes belong to a famous basketball player, Stanley was accused for stealing them. So the Yelnats family had a couple of contestations, and they came to a agreement that Stanley Yelnats has to be sent to Camp Green lake, a place for kids to have some introspection over things that they had done, but instead of sitting in a dirty cage and wait for the day your are released, you dig holes everyday, a hole that 5 foot long in diameter and 5 foot deep, the truth is that the warden is looking for something underground, in the camp, Standley made many friends. Zigzag, Magnet, X-ray, Armpit, Zero, and Squid are all kids at camp Green Lake, some of them cheated on a test, some of them stole something, they were all pretty friendly to Stanley and made friends wit him. In all Stanley¡¦s friends, his closest friend was zero, a kid that was caught by stealing a pair of shoes, he cant read or write, so people called he zero because he knows absolutely nothing. Stanley in order to get some rest, exchange with zero that, if he digs his hole for him, Stanley would teach him how to read and write, one day the two of them decided to run away from camp because they cant stand it anymore, but after they fled they soon regret, because they are in a barren desert with no water and food, they know they eventually have to return to camp Green Lake, but as they are on their way to the ¡§big thumb mountain¡¨ secrets began to reveal, on the way Zero was almost dead but he was saved after they arrived at big thumb mountain, because there was water and unlimited onions lying in the ground, want to know what happened and what¡¦s the secret to the warden and the treasure? Read the book! I find this book touching because it¡¦s well use of vocabulary and the well planned plot, there where flash backs in the book that gives the reader a new perspective to the book, I feel the book is easy to understand and people of all ages should read it, I give it a five star! Good job Louis Sachar!!
Rating: 5
Summary: A Masterpiece
Comment: I was originally turned on to this book after watching the movie of the same name. I enjoyed the movie, and thought that my children would enjoy the book. I borrowed the book from the library the next week and was surprised when I looked inside the cover at the list of other books written by the author---I was familiar with his work.
I read my first Loius Sachar book when I was in grade school. The book was Sideways Stories from Wayside School. I loved it, and it's one of the books that fueled my love of reading. Intrigued by the discovery, I read the entire book that night (which was not hard to do because the book is intended for children ages 9-12).
After reading the book, I was impressed at how well the movie stayed true to the book (which is usually quite rare for Hollywood to do). I was also impressed at how, after all these years the Loius Sachar was able to capture my attention so easily (especially since I already knew the whole story).
The bottom line is that this book is a true masterpiece. I strongly recommend this book to any reader---both young and old. Parents will enjoy reading this book to their younger children, while the older children will simply enjoy the reading and (hopefully) yearn for more.
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Title: The Giver by Lois Lowry ISBN: 0440237688 Publisher: Laure Leaf Pub. Date: 10 September, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Bud, Not Buddy (Newbery Medal Winner, 2000) by Christopher Paul Curtis ISBN: 0440413281 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 08 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title:Holes (Widescreen Edition) ASIN: B00005JLYQ Publisher: Walt Disney Home Entertainment Pub. Date: 23 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.99 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $26.99 |
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Title: Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake by Louis Sachar, Stanley Yelnat, Jeff Newman ISBN: 0440419476 Publisher: Yearling Books Pub. Date: 11 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $4.99 |
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