![]() ![]() It may have taken me a long time to get around to reading it, but I'm glad I finally did. I'd been curious as to why it attracted a reluctant reader like him and why he loved it and the movie so much. I've had Holes on my TBR list for many years, ever since it was my son's favorite book when he was around middle school age. ![]() But will they live long enough to let everyone else know what the Warden is really up to? Review Together, they try to solve the mystery, which they eventually discover has ties to Stanley's family history. ![]() Along the way, he befriends Zero, another of the boys who is something of an outcast. He has no idea what kind of treasure might be buried in a dried up lake, but he's determined to figure it out. The staff says it's to build character, but after Stanley find a small gold tube, which greatly interests the Warden, he realizes that they're digging the holes because she's looking for something. Every day, each of the boys staying there must dig a hole exactly five feet across and five feet deep. Now Stanley finds himself unjustly convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to Camp Green Lake, a boy's detention facility as punishment. It all started years ago with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and ever since the Yelnats men have had horrible luck. Stanley Yelnats believes his family is cursed.
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