Author: Louis Sachar
Year Published: 1998
Publisher: Dell
ISBN#: 0440414806
Pages: 233
Media Type: Book
Classification: Fiction
Subject: Friendship, Buried treasure, Juvenile delinquency
Reader's Annotation:
Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Year Published: 1998
Publisher: Dell
ISBN#: 0440414806
Pages: 233
Media Type: Book
Classification: Fiction
Subject: Friendship, Buried treasure, Juvenile delinquency
Reader's Annotation:
Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
Plot Summary:
Yelnats IV has been wrongly accused of stealing a famous baseball player's valued sneakers and is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention home where the boys dig holes, five feet deep by five feet across, in the miserable Texas heat. It's just one more piece of bad luck that's befallen Stanley's family for generations as a result of the infamous curse of Madame Zeroni. Overweight Stanley, his hands bloodied from digging, figures that at the end of his sentence, he'll "...either be in great physical condition or else dead."
Overcome by the useless work and his own feelings of futility, fellow inmate Zero runs away into the arid, desolate surroundings and Stanley, acting on impulse, embarks on a risky mission to save him. He unwittingly lays Madame Zeroni's curse to rest, finds buried treasure, survives yellow-spotted lizards, and gains wisdom and inner strength from the quirky turns of fate. In the almost mystical progress of their ascent of the rock edifice known as "Big Thumb," they discover their own invaluable worth and unwavering friendship. Fate conspires to resolve it all—the family curse, the mystery of the holes, the drought that destroyed Green Lake, and also, the legend of Kissing Kate Barlow, an infamous outlaw of the Wild West. TThere is no question, young adults will love Holes.
Overcome by the useless work and his own feelings of futility, fellow inmate Zero runs away into the arid, desolate surroundings and Stanley, acting on impulse, embarks on a risky mission to save him. He unwittingly lays Madame Zeroni's curse to rest, finds buried treasure, survives yellow-spotted lizards, and gains wisdom and inner strength from the quirky turns of fate. In the almost mystical progress of their ascent of the rock edifice known as "Big Thumb," they discover their own invaluable worth and unwavering friendship. Fate conspires to resolve it all—the family curse, the mystery of the holes, the drought that destroyed Green Lake, and also, the legend of Kissing Kate Barlow, an infamous outlaw of the Wild West. TThere is no question, young adults will love Holes.
Reading Level: 4
Interest Level: 5-9
Awards Won:
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Interest Level: 5-9
Awards Won:
- 1999 Newbery Medal
- 1998 National Book Award for Young People's Literature
- A Christopher Award for Juvenile Fiction
- An ALA Notable Book
- An ALA Best Book for Young Adults
- An ALA Quick Pick for Young Adults
- A New York Times Book Review Notable Children's Book of the Year
- A Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon Book
- A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year
- A Publishers Weekly Notable Children's Book of the Year
- A Publishers Weekly Bestseller
- A Horn Book Fanfare Title
- A Riverbank Review 1999 Children's Book of Distinction
- A New York Public Library Children's Book of 1998-100 Titles for Reading and Sharing
- A Texas Lone Star Award Nominee
- A NECBA Fall List Title
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