Friday, September 11, 2015

holes

 Stanley Yelnats is under a curse.  A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats.  Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day, digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep.  There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.  But there are an awful lot of holes.
       It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake.  The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something.  But what could be buried under a dried-up lake?  Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment -- and redemption.

6 comments:

  1. This book is good so far. there is a camp in the middle of nowhere. people go to the camp if the did bad things. They did holes were a lake dried up. it looks like the moon with the holes. There are very dangerous animals. a lot of people die from them.

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  2. I have read part of this before. I noticed that there were often flashbacks to point sin his history, do you like that about it?

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  3. i like it because its interesting i would like to dig lots of holes and the only one thing i dont like about it it the bad animals and dieing.

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  4. i like it because its interesting i would like to dig lots of holes and the only one thing i dont like about it it the bad animals and dieing.

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  5. Have you seen the movie? If so, what are some similarities and differences you noticed between the book and movie.

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  6. When I read this 3 years ago, I liked the mystery, and the character zero. whats your favorite part?

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