Holes

The book Holes is about a young boy by the name of Stanley Yelnats. Stanley Yelnats is a young boy who has been sent to a camp called camp Green Lake for being accused of stealing some shoes. Which were going on an auction from a famous baseball player named Clyde Livingston. Stanley denies the whole thing; he says the shoes just fell out of the sky. No one really believes him, not even his mom and dad.

When Stanley goes to this camp the Warden orders him that he digs holes with the rest of the kids who were there. Stanley meets five kids named Zig-Zag, Magnet, Armpit, Squid, X-ray, and Zero Stanley's best friend at the camp. All 6 of these boys, including Stanley stay in the same bunkhouse. Bunkhouse letter Group D. Mr. Pendanski is the younger counselor who communicates with the boys the most. Mr. Sir doesn't talk to the boys a lot but is the more discipline counselor. The Warden is the head of the Camp who very rarely comes out of her air-conditioned log house.

Stanley Yelnats had a great-great-grandfather, named Elya Yelnats, and he was in love wit his fiance. When her father wanted her to finally get married he had to choose between Elya and a man who wanted to trade her for a pig. Elya decided he was

I loved this book, it made me keep reading and not want to stop. The book was never slow; it was always feeding me an interesting topic. The only bad part of the book was the ending; it did not inform me on everything that happened to other characters. I would recommend this book to anyone who likes unique fiction books with lots of detail.

going to get a bigger pig and compete against this man. Elya went to Madame Zeroni, and she said that she would give him a baby pig and Elya would have to carry it up a mountain once a day and sing with it and it would grow to be bigger than the other man's. Only one thing Elya had to promise to do, after he win's his fiance over he would carry Madame Zeroni up the hill and sing to her, Elya agreed. Elya did this and his pig ended up being the same size as the other man's. When his fiance's father decided to let his daughter pick, she picked the other man. When Elya heard this he immediately hopped on a boat to America. In America he got married and had a kid and never fulfilled the promise to Madame Zeroni, so he and his family was cursed with bad luck for the rest of his life.

Stanley Yelnats is the main character, which is a Non-violent kid who is convicted for a crime he did not commit. He meets another kid at camp named Zero and with their friendship Stanley manages to break the family curse. Zero (also known as Hector Zeroni) is the best hole digger at camp. He is thought to be very uneducated by everyone at camp, in fact Zero is very smart. We come to learn that Zero is the great-great-great-great-grandson of Madame Zeroni. Most of these characters remind me of old friends from Detroit. I had a friend that was exactly like Zero. He came from a harsh backgro