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Holes Full Book Summary. Stanley Yelnats, a boy who has bad luck due to a curse placed on his great- great-grandfather, is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp, for a crime he did not commit. Stanley and the other boys at the camp are forced to dig large holes in the dirt every day. Stanley eventually realizes that they are ...
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Elya is Stanley's great-great-grandfather and the reason...
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Digging Holes The boys at Camp Green Lake are made to dig...
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Title Holes . Author Louis Sachar. Type of work Novel. Genre...
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Holes is one of 42 books written by Louis Sachar, most of which are classified as children's literature. The novel is categorized as young adult literature but has also been labeled as realistic fiction, a tall tale, a folk tale, a fairy tale, a children's story, a postmodern novel, detective fiction, and a historical legend. [1]
Scholastic BookFiles: A Reading Guide to Holes by Louis Sachar/by Monique Vescia. p. cm. Summary: Discusses the writing, characters, plot, and themes of this 1999 Newbery Award–winning book. Includes discussion questions and activities. Includes bibliographical references (p. ). Sachar, Louis, 1954– . Holes—Juvenile literature.
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Overview. Louis Sachar’s 1998 children’s mystery novel, Holes, tells the story of Stanley Yelnats, a 14-year-old boy accused of stealing a pair of shoes. A judge sentences him to 18 months in a camp, where a tyrannical warden has the boys digging five-foot by five-foot holes that appear random. However, their activity hints at the town’s ...
Aug 20, 1998 · Holes by Louis Sachar is a Scholastic children’s book suited more for middle schoolers than adults, but nonetheless still an enjoyable read, regardless of age. Because the text seemed familiar, I may have read portions of this book to some of my classes, years ago, although I did not recall the ending.
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Part 1, Chapter 1. There's no real camp or lake at Camp Green Lake. Though it was once the largest lake in Texas, it's been dry for the last 110 years. It's now a camp for "bad boys," where the boys dig holes every day. Stanley Yelnats is the only passenger on the bus to Camp Green Lake. He tries to pretend that he's going to an actual summer ...
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Holes Summary. Stanley Yelnats IV is an overweight teenage boy from a poor family, whose future fortune depends on his inventor father discovering the secret to curing bad foot odor. The Yelnats family is said to be cursed: Stanley's great-great-grandfather did not honor a promise he made to an old woman with magical powers, and misfortune has ...
