Guest Reviewer - August, Grade 7A
Why would this author want his book to be titled Holes?
The genre of this book is fiction and I think that 5th graders and MS students will like this book.
Stanley Yelnats is a boy that is nice and kind. However, he is bullied a lot because he is overweight. He is from a poor family and his father is an inventor that fails most of the time. Stanley Yelnats is arrested for a crime that he didn’t really commit and as punishment chooses to go to Camp Green Lake instead of going to jail. Camp Green Lake, Texas, is in an old abandoned town out in the desert. The camp warden lives in a cabin underneath two shady oak trees, but the boys that are sent to the camp have to live in tents under the hot, blazing sun.
"Stanley Yelnats was given a choice. The judge said, "You may go to jail, or you may go to Camp Green Lake." Stanley was from a poor family. He had never been to camp before." At first, Stanley was excited to go to camp because it was during the summer but later he realized that it was worse than being in jail. Stanley, with eyes filled with terror, went to the park and would only see miles and miles of desert. The setting is important because it is kind of a survival story about how to get used to the environment.
I like this book because it is a book filled with friendship, mystery and excitement.
3 comments:
Is this way different than the movie? I saw it but Stevie wasn't fat!
it seems like a good book
In the movie, Holes, Stanley wasn't fat, so I guess the book isn't as good as the movie.
Bailey, Gr. 7
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