Book Holes Age Level

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Book holes age level. Adult written by aidakiwi24 may 11 2011. Stanley yelnats iv is a 14 year old boy from a hard working but poor family. There are so many layers here history issues of racism and prejudice the importance of literacy etc.

The book was adapted for a 2003 movie. And there s a great. Now stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys detention center camp green lake where the warden makes the boys build character by spending all day every day digging.

I couldn t put this book down it. These twenty questions will help facilitate classroom or book group discussions about holes by louis sachar and make great writing prompts. Flashlight readers an online club for kids who loves books provides you and your child with interactive opportunities to share books and reinforce reading skills in fun and meaningful ways.

Parents need to know that louis sachar s holes is a funny moving and sometimes violent story that has an edge kids really respond to. Stanley yelnats is under a curse. The book holes is in the 5th or 6th grade range.

I would recommend this book to children above the age of 9 as those of a weak hearted disposition may not appreciate louis sachar s amazing descriptive skills. A curse that began with his no good dirty rotten pig stealing great great grandfather and has since followed generations of yelnats. In 1998 holes won the newberry award.

I use this book for the summer reading requirement in my 7th grade language arts class and the kids love it. Parents may want to talk to their children about the unfairness of stanley s life and the cold hearted viciousness of some of the characters. Asked in book reports holes novel and movie.