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Monday, February 13, 2012

Holes

Book Title: Holes
Author(s): Louis Sachar
Illustrator/Photographer/ Artist: Cover by Vladimir Radunsky
Publisher: Scholastic Press
Copyright Date: 2000
Genre: Contemporary realistic fiction
Brief Annotation: Stanley Yelnats and his family have been under a curse that started out with pig stealing great grandfather. Stanley always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. This time it got him sent to the juvenile detention center at Camp Green Lake. There is no lake and it isn’t green at Camp Green Lake instead it is a very hot and very dry dessert. At camp they have one job to dig holes five feet deep and five feet wide, all day, every day. The boys are told it is to build character but Stanley realizes that there is more to the story than that. Stanley perseveres at the camp through the heat and the blisters and then shows great courage and perseverance in the desert when he runs away to save another boy who ran away from the camp.  
Your Rating (1-5) and Why: I rate this book a five. It is very exciting and has a great plot with several underlying messages.
Readers who will like this book: I think kids who like adventure will love this book.
Question to ask about this book before you read aloud: Have you ever been accused or blamed for something you didn’t do?
List awards: Newbery Medal, National Book Award, Boston Globe-Horn award, Christopher Award for Juvenile Fiction and several book of the year and best book awards.
               
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