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Holes: Book 1

Holes (1998) (edit title/settings)

by Louis Sachar (Author) (edit contributors)

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Stanley Yelnats is sentenced to dig holes at Camp Green Lake detention center for stealing a pair of sneakers. His grandfather tells him it is because a curse of bad luck that's in the family, which all started because of his no-good, dirty, rotten, pig-stealing great-great-grandfather. ... read more

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Stanley Yelnats is wrongly accused of a crime and is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile correctional facility. When Stanley arrives at Camp Green Lake, he learns that the lake is all dried out. Stanley is forced to dig out holes each day to "teach him discipline and character".
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Stanley Yelnats is wrongly accused of a crime and is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile correctional facility. When Stanley arrives at Camp Green Lake, he learns that the lake is all dried out. Stanley is forced to dig out holes each day to "teach him discipline and character".
233 pages.
2nd term
Tyler Wheeler.
Prd. 3 English
What was the hardest lesson for the main character in the story.
Stanley Yelnats had to go through digging holes for 12 months straight 1 year Stanley had to go through hard times and he had to do some hard things he woke up at 5:00 in the morning and he had to dig holes until he was done and then they had the rest of the day off and then they had to do it for 12 months straight.
2. Which events in the text are most connected.
the author tells this story through a series of flashbacks he talks about whats happening right now in the next second he talks about something that happened 100 years ago. the reader doesn't know till the end of the book how all the events of the story work together for Stanley to find the treasure of his great great grandfather Stanley Yelnats the first. one example of how this worked in the book he is walking out of an under pass and tennis shoes fall on his head he is arrested and he went to court and is sent to camp green lake later he finds out that another boy called Hector actually stole those shoes and he threw them over the overpass and they hit stanley.
3.Who told the story in the text
stanley tells about whats happening right now to him but the author uses a narrator to tell about the flashbacks it really makes you curious about how the history and the present will fit together in the text and yet they all do in the end

Characters edit see section history

  • Stanley Yelnats IV: Main character and protagonist. Known as Stanley Yelnats. His family is cursed with horrible luck, he having trouble with bullies at school! But then he is accused of stealing a famous baseball player's shoes. He finds himself digging holes in the dried up lake, unraveling his family's mysterious past. He ends up learning a lesson. His name spelled backwards, is his last name.
  • Stanley Yelnats III: Stanley Yelnats' father. He is an inventor who is trying to invent a machine that recycles sneakers.
  • Stanley Yelnats II: Stanley Yelnats' grandfather.
  • Stanley Yelnats I: Stanley Yelnats I, famous for being robbed by Kissin' Kate Barlow. He was stranded in the desert (Green Lake) but fortunately found refuge on "God's Thumb".
  • Elya Yelnats: The Yelnats' no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. He struck a deal with an old woman and then broke the promise which sent a curse on Elya's family for generations.
  • Madame Zeroni: Mysterious female who supposedly has put a curse on the Yelnats.
  • Hector Zeroni (zero): His real name is Hector Zeroni. He doesn't like to talk. Everyone thinks he's so dumb because he doesn't talk much. Doesn't know how to read.
  • Rex: X-Ray is the leader of Group D.
  • Alan: Nicknamed Squid.
  • Jose: Jose the Hispanic of Group D. His hands are supposedly like magnets. nickname is magnet, one of the guys who Stanley becomes close to.
  • Miss Walker: She owns the shade. The only shade at Camp Greenlake. She's the boss of the joint, making the boys dig holes and more holes, but why, you ask? Warden will get anything her way, everything she wants...but what?
  • Mr. Pendanski: One of the Camp Green Lake's counsellors. Nicknamed "Mom" by the others because he is very caring. Another one of the three counselors claiming he is a "Dr." and tries to help the kids out.
  • Ms. Morengo: The Yelnat's family lawyer.
  • Mary Lou: Sam the onion man's donkey. Who apparently is over 100 years old.
  • Zero: one of stanely's friends at camp and stanely quickly realizes that zero was never taught how to read but zero is really good at digging holes so the two make a deal
  • Zero: Very quiet boy who is at the camp. Never talks and is good atr digging holes.
  • Clyde"Sweet Feet" Livingston: A famous baseball player.
  • Stanley: A good kid who made a bad decision to steal shoes.
  • "Kissin" Kate Barlow: A pretty, young schoolteacher who, by falling in love with a black man, incurs the ire of the local rednecks, her students. When they kill him because of her, she becomes an outlaw. Everyone she kisses, she kills. This is all tied in to the camp and why it exists.
  • Stanley Yelnats IV: a young teenager who gets convicted of stealing shoe's which he had never stole and was sent to a boot camp thing where he learns there is buried treasure containing millions of dollars under his name
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Quotes edit see section history

  • “Stanley could hear his heart beat. Each beat told him he was still alive, at least for one more second.”
    Narrator
  • “A lot of people don't believe in curses. A lot of people don't believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bites you, it doesn't make a difference whether you believe in it or not.”
  • “His muscles and hands weren't the only parts of his body that had toughened over the past several weeks. His heart had hardened as well.”
  • “"If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was just a little bit softer." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, He cries to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, if only."”
  • “If only, if only, the moon speaks no reply;Reflecting the sun and all that's gone by.Be strong my weary wolf, turn around boldly.Fly high, my baby birdMy angel, my only.”
  • “This ain't no girl scout camp!”
    Mr Sir
  • “My name is Mr. Sir. You shall call me by my name”
    Mr. Sir

Organizations edit see section history

  • Girl Scouts: Founder Juliette Gordon Low organized the first Girl Scout Troop on March 12, 1912, in Savannah, Georgia. Girl Scouts of the USA was chartered by the U.S. Congress on March 16, 1950. Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

First Sentence edit see section history

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Part One: You Are Entering Camp Green Lake
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Part Two: The Last Hole
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Part Three: Filling In The Holes
Chapter 50

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 1 of 2 in Holes. (standard series)

Followed by Small Steps.

This is book 83 of 196 in BBC 'Big Read' Top 200 Novels, 2003. (authoritative list)

Preceded by I Capture the Castle, and followed by Gormenghast.

This is book 59 of 195 in Shelfari Most Popular (June 2010). (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Notebook, and followed by The Book Thief.

This is book 954 of 986 in 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up. (authoritative list)

Preceded by Pig-Heart Boy, and followed by The Crowstarver.

This is book 16 of 95 in Estrela do Mar. (community list)

Preceded by No Reino do Sonho, and followed by Viagem a um Mundo Fantástico.

Preceded by True Grit, and followed by Lord of the Flies.

This is book 42 of 195 in Shelfari Most Popular (June 2011). (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Secret Life of Bees, and followed by The Diary of a Young Girl.

This is book 42 of 195 in Shelfari Most Popular (December 2011). (authoritative list)

Preceded by Jane Eyre, and followed by Wuthering Heights.

This is book 48 of 194 in Shelfari Most Popular (December 2010). (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Chronicles of Narnia, and followed by The Return of the King.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Louis Sachar (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. Leelo Märjamaa (Translator)
  2. Rein Põder (Editor)
  3. Jüri Mildeberg (Cover Artist)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Children
Country: United States of America
Publication Date: 1998
ISBN: 0439244196
Page Count: 233

Awards edit see section history

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Classification edit see section history

  • Library of Congress: PZ7.S1185 Ho 1998
  • Dewey: <Fic> 21

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Young Adults

Discusses theme of child punishment.

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More Books Like This edit see section history

   
  • Small Steps

Books Influenced by This Book edit see section history

   
  • Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake
  • Small Steps

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