Saturday, December 15, 2007

"Holes" by Louis Sachar

-"HOLES"-
"Holes" is an interesting book by Louis Sachar,author of the Marvin Redpost series.
Stanley Yelnats was given two options:Go to jail or Camp Green Lake.
He was sent to Camp Green Lake for a crime he never commited.
Stanley comes from a poor family and he blames his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather for the curse he's under.
Camp Green Lake was a camp nobody would ever go to.And it was a place for bad boys.In Camp Green Lake,thirst was what you had to get used to for there was really no lake neither was it green.
Scorpions,rattlesnakes and yellow spotted lizards roam the place.
And yellow spotted lizards are the most dangerous lizards ever.
One bite and nobody can do anything.
Anyway,at Camp Green Lake,you just dig holes 5 feet wide and 5 feet deep.
The worst of all,is the Warden.She hits anyone who upsets her.Anyone.
Stanley meets new friends there,each with a nickname.
What treasure is the Warden looking for?Why is it that Green Lake was named after a desserted,sandy place?Find out in this ground-breaking book.
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