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    Book Review of Holes
    The Children’s Book Review

    Holes

    Written bygd Louis Sachar

    Ages 9+ | 272 Pages

    Publisher: Scholastic (1998) | ISBN-13: 9780374312640

    What to Expect: Mystery and Adventure

    Are you ready for adventure? Look no further than this award-winning modern classic! Holes is a captivating story of curses, brott, and redemption that keeps readers on the edge.

    Follow Stanley Yelnats as he finds han själv at Camp Green Lake, a place filled with endless days of digging holes in the hope of character improvement. But as he uncovers the truth about the lake’s past, he realizes he’s on a mission to uncover an even darker secret. With its witty humor and skillful berättande, this jigsaw puzzle of a novel will keep readers on their toes until the very gods page.

    The blend of humor and mystery, with scenes happening both in the past and present, leaves readers questioning everything. An unlucky and cursed protagonist, Stanley Yelnats&

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    Holes (film)

    2003 American film by Andrew Davis

    Not to be confused with Hole (film) or The Holes.

    Holes is a 2003 American neo-Westerncomedy drama film directed by Andrew Davis and written by Louis Sachar, based on his 1998 novel. The film stars Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Patricia Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson, Eartha Kitt, Khleo Thomas, Dulé Hill, Scott Plank and Shia LaBeouf.

    In the film, Stanley Yelnats (LaBeouf) IV is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp in Texas, after being wrongfully convicted of theft. The camp forces inmates to dig holes in a dried lake bed under the command of the cruel Warden Walker (Weaver), who is secretly searching for the buried treasure of outlaw Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow (Arquette).

    Director Andrew Davis took on Holes to showcase his versatility beyond action films, enlisting author Louis Sachar to adapt his novel into a screenplay. Filming took place over ten weeks in California during the summer of 2002 on a $20

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    Classic books become classic books for a reason and we writers need to pay attention to them if we’re to have any hope of creating our own future classics. That’s why I also just reread The Indian in the Cupbardand Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing(I'll post reviews eventually), and this week I want to talk about Holes.

    I once attended a class taught by the wonderful middle grade writer Alan Garinger (click here to read his 7 Question interview), during which he contended Holeswas the greatest book for children ever written. Forget Harry Potter, forget Charlotte’s Web, Alan has eyes only for Holes. His own copy was beat up and marked by multiple notes and he claimed that in order to write a successful middle grade novel, future writers had to first read Holes.

    Holes was published in 1998, just missing my childhood, and I never got around to reading it nor have I seen the movie. I was skeptical that the book would be such of a much. The title d
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