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Holes
by Louis Sachar
(review written: May28, 2002 by Kevin D. Hendricks)

Fiction
233 pages

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
1998

Stanley Yelnats has been sentenced to dig a hole a day, five feet deep and five feet across. It's part of Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention center in the middle of the desert. The hole digging apparently builds character, but Stanley doesn't buy it.

Louis Sachar has packed his Newbery-winning tale with interesting characters and a darkly humorous plot that keeps you reading. Just like his Wayside School series, Holes is full of the same oddball humor that makes kids and adults laugh.

The hole digging doesn't make sense to Stanley, and neither do the antics of the sinister Mr. Sir and the Warden. Stanley intends to fight the system and uncover the truth. The result is a twisted mystery of justice and redemption.

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