Holes
by Louis Sachar
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Author: Louis SacharEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-03-11
ISBN: 0440419468
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Yearling
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Book Review: "This isn't a Girl Scout camp."
Summary: 3 Stars
Stanley Yelnats IV chooses an 18-month sentence at Camp Green Lake Juvenile Detention Center ("He had never been to camp before.") over jail time for his supposed part in the disappearance of a pair of smelly sneakers belonging to basketball star Clyde "Sweet Feet" Livingston. Said shoes were to be auctioned off to raise money for charity. He arrives only to learn that: there is no lake, nor has there been for over 100 years; breakfast is served daily at 4:30 am; and his punishment includes the daily digging of a hole (five feet in diameter by five feet deep) where midday during the summer it's 95 degrees in the shade. He attributes the bad luck of his capture and conviction to (p 25) "...his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather." The story behind this mantra (used often by the family to explain their misfortune) involves a dimwitted prospective bride and an inadvertently unkept promise. The second subplot concerns the legend of a beloved schoolteacher named Kate Barlow, who lost the admiration of her fans when she found forbidden love. The unlikely plots are interwoven well, right down to story's neatly tied-up ending: a clean, good (but not great) story of friendship, fate and falderal. Better: The Giver by Lois Lowery and Feed by M.T. Anderson.
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