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Holes
Joszef Schankey
March 4, 2009
Book Review
This book is one of the greatest children’s books. Holes tells the story of a young man named Stanley Yelnats (his last name is his first name spelled backward) who is unlucky, overweight, and hopeless. He gets all of his bad traits from his “no-good-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.” The blame is on him because he was in a pact with a witch and when he didn’t come through with his end of the deal he got a curse put on him.
To go on with the story when he was walking home from school a pair of shoes fell on him. When he got up and looked at them he realized he was in trouble. The shoes were from a famous baseball players named “Sweet Feet”. When the cops chased him down and caught him he had a court date set up for theft. When he was in court getting his sentence the judge gave him a choice. He said “you can go to jail or attend camp green lake”. The thing he didn’t know about the camp is there is no lake. And it is a correctional facility that makes you dig holes to learn to not break the law.
After being there for a while he made a good friend named Zero. He was called Zero because he was said to be stupid and couldn’t talk. But come to find out he was actually a smart young man just needed some steering in the right direction. So when Stanley got him to talk everyone was shocked. One day when Stanley and Zero were digging there holes they got in a fight. Zero hit father with a shovel and ran away. But there was nowhere to go. Stanley was devastated at the thought of Zero dying. So when Mr. Sir was giving them water he stole his truck and tried to bring Zero some water. But on his way out there he crashed into a hole.
On his adventure out there he ran into Zero sleeping under a old boat. There were a bunch of canned peaches there that kept him alive. When they ate the last one they kept walking toward the mountain “Gods Thumb”. And the rest is yours to find out when you read the book.
I did not run into any problems with the book. They addressed everything keeping the book very interesting. That is why I recommend this book to people of every age. It is a good book with good action and drama.