Stanley Yelnats is accused of stealing a pair of shoes he said fell out of the sky. So when he is sentenced to Camp Green Lake, he thinks he has it made because he is innocent anyway. But Camp Green Lake is like no other camp, it is not green, there is no lake, and it is definitely not a camp. It used to hold "the largest lake in Texas," but now it is a scorching desert full of holes dug by the boys who live at the camp.
At Camp Green Lake, the warden makes the boys spend all day digging holes that are five feed deep and five feed wide to "build character". Stanley realizes that there's more than character building going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something, and before long Stanley begins his own search—for the truth. Stanley makes friends together, they work to learn all the secrets of the lake and find a way out.
This is a really good book. My son turned me on to this book when he was in elementary school. This was long after is won the Newbery Award. My students like this book, but they have seen the movie and this makes them want to read the book.
Sachar, Louis. (2000). Holes. New York: Random House Children's Books.
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