Sachar, Louis. (2008). Holes. New York, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Brief Annotation: Stanley Yelnats is in the wrong place at the wrong time in the beginning of the story all thanks to his pig stealing great, great grandfather. He gets sent to a camp that forces boys to dig holes everyday and claims it is to straghten them up because of the bad things they did to get there in the first place. Stanley soon learns the real reason the warden of the place is digging for something and he is a part of it. With the help of his new friend Zero, it is up to Stanley to break the family curse and find out what is really going on at the camp.
Genre: Contemporary Realistic Fiction
Grade Level: 4 and up
Readers who will like this: Readers who like an adventure and like to be sucked in to keep reading with new things being discovered every chapter.
Response/Rating: 4; I really love this book and could not put it down. You are in it from start to finish with Stanley the whole way.
Question: Have you ever been in the wrong place at the wrong time and got blamed for something you did not do?
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