Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Holes Book Talk

Sachar, L. (1998). Holes. New York: Random House.





Have you ever felt like luck just isn’t on your side?  Have you felt that no matter what you do that things just won’t go your way?  This is exactly how Stanley Yelnats felt in the book Holes by Louis Sachar.  Stanley is sent to a youth detention center, Camp Green Lake, one summer for a crime that he did not commit.  Stanley’s bad luck comes from a cursed place on his great-great grandfather.  While Stanley is at Camp Green Lake he and the other boys are forced by the Warden to dig large holes in the dirt everyday.   As Stanley spends his summer at Camp Green Lake he begins to discover why is his family is cursed, and what the Warden has the boys digging for.  Read Holes by Louis Sachar to discover what the Warden is searching for and the secret of Stanely’s family curse. 

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