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Holes

Louis Sachar

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Holes Louis Sachar I read Holes because I'm a teacher. I teach English Comp, and this past semester I was teaching to kind of remedial level students, so that was the novel we decided to use that would be a fun novel that would get their interest. Holes is about a sort of detention camp for boys that is held out in the Texas desert, and the story focuses on Stanley Yelnats, the hero, the protagonist of the novel, who is punished for a crime he actually didn't commit and sent for - I think he spent a year or a year and a-half at Camp Greenlake, which is this camp for boys out in the desert kind of run by a very strict warden, and the boys' job is to spend each day out in the hot sun, digging a five foot hole. What I liked best about Holes is the level on which it operates like a puzzle. There's like three different storylines intertwined, so there's a lot going on. There's the immediate story of Stanley at Camp Greenlake, then there's a story that took place like 110 years ago in the town - where there actually used to be a lake before it dried up - and actually buried treasure that goes back 110 years and characters who are brought together from separate families that end up being reunited through the immediate storyline surrounding Camp Greenlake. There's a lot of humor in the book, and it's clever, and it keeps you guessing. It's not - I mean it is a young adult novel, so as an adult, I didn't find the level of language or detail that compelling. The char - there's not that much character development. It's a little but for sure with Stanley, the main character, and Zero, his best friend; but the other boys in the bunk are kind of like extremely two-dimensional. Probably written for like 11 to 15, and you could probably get some younger kids who are really good readers who could get into it or enjoy having it read to them. I'd give this book certainly four stars out of five.