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Booktalk
#1
Hi,
my name is Tyler, and I
am here to tell you about one of my
favorite books ever written. This book
is called Holes.
It
starts out with a boy who
has two choices; he can go to jail or go
to a so-called camp for bad boys.
At this camp they make you dig holes five
feet wide, and five feet long
until you finish the hole. Then you can
stop. It’s been a known fact that
no one survives. Practically every kid
purposely tries to hurt himself
so he can rest in his tent. If you lay in
the hammock they will have your
head! Anyway, this book will always leave
you hanging. If you like laughter,
horror, or anything in between, this is
the book for you. If you want to
find out if this boy survives camp read HOLES!
(Tyler C., 8th grade
student, Rundlett Middle School)
Booktalk
#2
Camp
Green Lake is not what
it appears. There is no lake.
There is no camp, unless you
consider incarceration a fun way to spend
the summer. Stanley is
at the end of his luck, what little he's
had all his life. Accused
of stealing sneakers, he is sent away to
Camp Green Lake rather than going
to jail. What he finds out is that
jail would have been a whole lot
better.
Rising
each day early, the
boys are made to dig holes, five feet deep
and five feet wide in the hot
Texas sun, avoiding the pitfalls of heat
and creatures. Out of necessity,
Stanley learns to live in the group of
outcast boys and befriends Zero,
(the name speaks volumes as does Stanley's
palindromic one). But
why are they digging these holes for the
warden, a woman who paints her
nails with rattlesnake poison? The
plot thickens in tall tale fashion
and you can't read fast enough or cheer
loud enough for Stanley and Zero.
(New Hampshire Great Stone Face Committee)
Booktalk
#3
This
story is about a boy Stanley
Yelnats.One day hes a normal kid the next
he is acused of stealing a pair
of shoes.He has two options 1 is go to
jail 2 is go to camp green lake.Camp
green lake is a wierd place were it never
rains and there is no lake.They
have to dig holes five feet wide five feet
deep.They don't know what there
looking for but one day stanly finds out.
(Justin , student, Musselman
Middle School. Bunker Hill, WV dbjenkin@access.k12.wv.us)
Booktalk
#4
Stanley
Yelnats is always at
the wrong place at the wrong time. One day
Stanley was walking home after
school when a pair of sneakers fell from
the sky. Next thing you know Stanley
is digging holes with Zero, Zigzag,,
Armpit and others at Camp Green Lake.
Is Camp Green Lake Fun? Why is Stanley
digging holes? What are they looking
for? How does his
dirty-rotten-stealing-great-grandfather
get in to the
story? Will he ever be able to go back
home? (Alex Berg, Mansfield High
School Student)
Booktalk
#5
Deadly
Yellow spotted lizards
surround you...
A
pair of sneakers fell from
the sky, Stanley Yelnats is quickly
accused of stealing them, he is given
a choice to either go to jail or camp
green Lake, he decides to go to camp
Green Lake. It is nothing like it sounds,
there is no lake, it is a dry
wasteland and he has to dig a hole 5 feet
wide and 5 feet deep every day.
The campers are told they dig holes to
build character, but they know they
are not digging to build character. One
camper hated it so bad he purposely
got bit by a rattle snake. There are
constant fears at fears at camp Green
Lake, there are rattle snakes and deadly
yellow spotted lizards. Will Stanley
make it through camp Green Lake? Will he
find out why they are digging?
(Dylan, student)
Booktalk
#6
Have
you ever gotten in trouble
for something you didn�t do? Or, you
were just at
the wrong place at the wrong time? Well,
that�s how
Stanley Yelnats� life always is.
The story starts
off with Stanley walking under a bridge
and a pair of shoes hits him on
the head. Since his dad was working on an
invention to recycle shoes he
started running to give them to his
dad. A cop pulled him over and
saw they were Clyde Livingston�s shoes,
a famous baseball
player. Stanley was arrested on the
spot. He was sent to Camp Green
Lake, a dry wasteland in the middle of
nowhere for a year and a half. Will
Stanley make new friends? Will
Stanley�s dad
ever fix his invention? What will Stanley
do at this camp? Will Stanley
ever get out of the dry wasteland called
Camp Green Lake? Read Holes
if you whant to find out What happens to
Stanley. (Ethan,
student)
Booktalk
#7
A
young unlucky, unfortunate,
and poor Stanley Yates is sent to Camp
Green Lake for a crime that he didn't
commit. His
"no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-grandfather,"
is to
blame for such a misfortune due to a curse
that has been with his family
for generations. In the book Holes,
Stanley plans to break the curse that
his great grandfather sets on him and his
family just by being at the wrong
place at the wrong time, something that
the unlucky curse has made common
for his great grandfather. These small
mishaps turn out to be a key part
in Stanley's life when he learns something
that turns his whole life in
another direction. Read Holes, and learn
where Stanley's mistakes drive
him. (Adam S., student)
Booktalk
#8
Stanley
Yelnats is being charged
with a crime that he didn't even commit.
At court, the judge gives him
a choice. He can either go to jail, or he
can go to Camp Green Lake. Stanley's
family is poor and he has never gone to
camp before. Yet Camp Green Lake
isn't your typical camp. In fact, there is
no lake. "Welcome to Camp Greenlake,
said the driver. Stanley looked out the
dirty window. He couldn't see a
lake. And hardly anything was green."
[...] "The land was barren and desolate,
he could see a few run down buildings and
some tents, farther away there
was a cabin beneath two tall trees. Those
two trees were the only plant
life he could see. There weren't even
weeds." (11).
All
anyone does at Camp
Green Lake is dig, and dig. But why are
they digging? What is in the ground
at Camp Green Lake? Does anyone get out
alive? Read Holes by Louis Sachar
to find out the mystery of Camp Green Lake
and more in this contemporary
realistic fiction novel. (Michelle K.,
mj-kruzil@wiu.edu, college student)
Booktalk
#9
The
boys dig….dig….dig….. "She
watches us all the time," said
ZigZag. "She's got hidden
microphones
and cameras all over the place. In
the tents, the Wreck Room, the
shower." "The shower"? asked
Stanley. He wondered if Zigzag
was just being paranoid.
Searching…….searching…….searching…
The Warden
opened the bottle. "Rattlesnake
venom." With a small paintbrush she
began applying it to the nails on her left
hand. She waved it in
the air for a few seconds, then began
painting the nails on her right hand.
"It's only toxic, when it's wet."
Will
Stanley Yelnats get out
of Camp Green Lake with his health or more
importantly his life?
Read Holes by Louis Sachar to take
Stanley's journey. (Kenny VanHouten,
KW-VanHouten@wiu.edu, College student)
Booktalk
#10
“Dig
It Up” song
Stanley
Yelnats was given a
choice. The judge said, “You may go to
jail, or you may go to Camp Green
Lake.” Stanley was from a poor family. He
had never been to camp before.
Stanley was wrongly accused of stealing a
pair of shoes donated by basketball
great Clyde “Sweetfeet” Livingston at a
celebrity auction. The judge did
not believe Stanley when he said the shoes
fell right from the sky but
then again, who would believe a story like
that? He thought he was getting
an easy punishment by going to camp and
all but Camp Green Lake is not
like any other camp. It is bizarre and has
no lake and is not green in
any way. Stanley, later known as Caveman,
and the other boys are told to
dig holes so they can build character.
Stanley is a smart boy and soon
realizes that the treacherous warden is in
search for something and before
long, Stanley begins his own search-for
the truth. Throughout this contemporary
realistic fiction novel called Holes by
Louis Sachar, Stanley discovers
the mystery of the holes, the drought that
destroyed Green Lake but most
importantly, the mysteries of his family
curse. (Jessica Becker,
je-becker@wiu,edu, college student)
Booktalk
#11
Stanley got in to some deep trouble when he was accused of stealing a pair of shoes that fell from the sky. He had 2 choices -- go to a jail or go to a camp for bad boys. Stanley chooses the camp. He will be there for the whole summer. At the camp, if you can call it a camp, there's no lake and very long hot summers. Each day you had to dig a hole 5 feet deep and 5 feet long then you're done for the day . You are surrounded by deadly yellow purple spotted lizards. It’s a known fact that usually no one makes it out of that camp alive. His father is a lawyer and he's probably the only one to help Stanley get out of this place he hates to pieces. Will Stanley make it out alive ? Will his father come through and help him get out of this camp. (Samantha Young, syoung6344@gmail.com, k-12 student)
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