Stanley Yelnats is a teenage boy from a poor but
hard-working family of farmers. The
family blames their continual bad luck on a curse of bad luck set in motion by
his pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather, and the latest example of this comes
when Stanley is wrongfully accused of stealing a priceless pair of shoes. Stanley is sentenced to a period of hard
labor, digging precisely-measured holes in the ground at a prison camp. Over time, Stanley discovers that he and the
rest of the inmates aren’t just digging as punishment, but rather searching for
something…
Besides the fact that this book is such a great story, one
other reason for its phenomenal success is that it’s just plain fun! Yes, Stanley’s last name is his first spelled
backwards, and that’s just one of the small details buried within this book for
careful readers to find. The supporting
cast is just plain hilarious, and it’s no wonder that Disney decided to make “Holes”
into a film.
If you’re looking for a modern classic that will have boys
howling with laughter as they fly through the pages, look no further than “Holes”.
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