Holes, written by Louis Sachar and illustrated by Vladimic Radunsky
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Pages: 240
Genre: Fiction - Science Fiction
Rating: Thumbs Up!
This story is about a young boy, Stanley Yelnats V, whose family has had years of bad luck from a curse prior to the first Stanley Yelnats immigrating to America. In this fun, twisting and time traveling story, Stanley is accused of stealing a famous baseball players donated sneakers. He then is sentenced to serve time at the Texas detention center, Camp Greenlake - where ironically there is no lake.
When Stanley arrives, he meet the young men he will be building character with by digging 5x5 holes in the old lake bed. Each boy has a nickname and only one is welcoming to Stanley - Zero. By the time we are finished we have traveled through time with an outlaw, reversed a curse, gotten rich, made it rain and closed Camp Greenlake.
This is a fun and twisting story that all can enjoy and this is why I rated it a "Thumbs Up!". It is a good depiction of how the past can follow us sometimes, and a good tale into the crazy and caring adventures of Stanley.
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