Holes Book Review Summary

Stanley yelnats iv is a 14 year old boy from a hard working but poor family.

Holes book review summary. Plot overview sparknotes. Holes holes 1 louis sachar. The yelnats family is said to be cursed.

This is the first book by louis sachar that i have read. Stanley is an overweight and unlucky boy who was caught with a pair of sneakers belonging to a famous baseball player who intended to auction them off for charity and he has been sentenced to time at camp green lake. Holes is a 1998 young adult mystery comedy novel written by louis sachar and first published by farrar straus and giroux.

The book was adapted for a 2003 movie. Stanley yelnats was the only passenger on the bus not counting the driver or the guard. 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.

And there s a great audiobook version read by kenny beyer. Stanley eventually realizes that they are. Stanley yelnats is a boy with incredibly bad luck.

Stanley s great great grandfather did not honor a promise he made to an old woman with magical powers and. Stanley yelnats a boy who has bad luck due to a curse placed on his great great grandfather is sent to camp green lake a juvenile detention camp for a crime he did not commit. Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment and redemption.

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. Holes is a novel by louis sachar that was first published in 1998. Everyone in his family blames this on a curse placed on them years ago.