Holes
Louis Sachar
Published by Frances Foster Books
Copyright 1998
233 pages
Children's Chapter Book
Fiction

Stanley Yelnats and his family believe that their family has been cursed because of their no-good-dirty-rotton-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather who forgot to take madame Zeroni up the hill to drink of the stream. One day a pair of shoes fall from the sky and hit him in the head. He gets arrested for stealing and sent to a camp for boys. The boys there dig holes to build character. There he meets a boy named Zero. After they are mistreated, the boys run off and try to survive in the desert. While out there, Stanley starts to uncover the truth about the feared outlaw Kissin Kate Barlow, who robbed his great grandfather, and why they are digging holes. The warden is looking for Kissin Kate Barlow's burried treasure. They survive on onions and Stanley breaks the curse put on his family by carring Zero, who is Madame Zeroni's great great grandson, up the mountain and letting him drink from the stream. They go back down to camp to try and dig up the lost treasure and find it, but they are discovered by the Warden. They are saved by the feared Yellow Spotted Lizards, which are deadly but dont like onions so they dont bite the boys, they just stick around and give Stanley's attorney enough time to come and pick him up. His name has been cleared and Zero actually confesses to the crime. They also find out that the buried treasure is actually Stanley's great grandfather's so he gets to keep it and he and his family become wealthy.
I love this book because not only is it really funny, but it is so unpredictable. Everything in the book ties together in the end.
I would recomend this book to everyone because it is really good at staying away from sides.
I dont see any problems coming from this book.