Always.' Fear of the desert, 'We've got the only water for a hundred miles. Fear of the yellow-spotted lizard, 'You don't want to be bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard. He does his best to fit in, too although it is difficult, and although no one believes in his innocence. And Stanley does wonder what good it does in rehabilitating Green Lake's young inmates. Up at 4.30am, the boys at Green Lake must each dig such a hole, out in the heat of the desert, before he can return to camp and rest.

Digging holes that are precisely five feet wide, five feet long and five feet deep isn't fun either. But, while thousands of other young Americans are having fun, Stanley is digging holes at a juvenile correction centre. Stanley is from a poor family and he's never spent a summer at camp before. Victim of a miscarriage of justice, Stanley has been sent to Camp Green Lake. The palindromic Stanley Yelnats, in any case, is not a bad boy. If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy. Highly recommended.Ī Times Educational Supplement Teachers' Top 100 Book Part mystery, part coming-of-age, part situation comedy and with top-drawer writing, it has something to appeal to everyone. Includes a double bonus: an excerpt from Small Steps, the follow-up to Holes, as well as an excerpt from Louis Sachar’s new middle-grade novel, Fuzzy Mud.Available for purchase at:Amazon - Audiobook (CD format)Barnes & Noble - Audiobook (CD format)Books A Million - Audiobook (CD format)IndieBound - Audiobook (CD format)Powell's - Audiobook (CD format)Walmart - Audiobook (CD format)Apple - Audiobook (Downloadable format)Audible - Audiobook (Downloadable format)audiobooks.Summary: Holes is a quirky, individual little book that can be read by children and adults alike. 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. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. 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. 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. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. from the New York Times bestselling author who has been recognized with the Newberry Award as well as the National Book Award!Stanley Yelnats is under a curse.

Holes by louis sachar