Holes - Louis Sachar Reviews

Stanley Yelnats is not a lucky child - far from it. This runs in his family, and has done since his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great grandfather made away with the pig that earned him his moniker. Luck appears to have taken against Stanley big-time now though, as, convicted of a crime he was entirely innocent of, he has been taken from his ...  Read the complete review

I have just finished reading this fantastic book to my Year 6 class of 10 and 11 year olds and its appeal can not be understated. From start to finish there is a magical ingredient that keeps you wanting more. Maybe it's the fact that you know the main character, Stanley Yelnats, is innocent or that you can actually feel the pain and ...  Read the complete review

I first came across Holes when a child I was working with chose to read it to me as his reading book. Unfortunately the child took it on holiday when we were halfway through and I didn't hear the end. Since I was on maternity leave, I decided to get a few books to entertain myself and chose this. I got my copy off E-bay for £2.50 including ...  Read the complete review

I am not a very keen reader, I find it terribly difficult to get into a book, I would say I finish about 5% of the books which i start reading. I dont know why, I think i have a very poor attention span. However, I can say this with my hand on my heart, I put this book down 3 times during the time i spent reading it. I started early in the morning ...  Read the complete review

Stanley Yelnats never has much luck, in fact his whole family seem to be having a generational run of bad luck, there is a possibility that he is the decendant of a man who forgot to fulfil his promise to a wise woman and so cursed whole generations of his family. But his mother has never believed that. So Stanley is not all that surprised ...  Read the complete review

This story is at first very hard to get used to because it keeps sending you back in time to 'Camp Green Lakes'past. But once you do get used to that fact this book is actually quite sensational! It's a gripping story about a boy named Stanley Yelnats who gets sent to a Camp for very bad boys. Just because somebody suspected him of stealing a pair ...  Read the complete review

"If you want to run run, nobody is going to stop you. Do you see any guardtowers. Nobody runs away from camp green lake. We have the only water supply for 100 miles." Stanley is new at camp green lake and on the journey sits on and old dusty school bus. As he sits with his bag on his lap he sees the guard at the front carrying a ...  Read the complete review

"If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy. That what was what some people thought." Is that what you think? I'm not sure. The palindromic Stanley Yelnats, in any case, is not a bad boy. Victim of a miscarriage of justice, ...  Read the complete review

Theediscerning rather came to the phenomenon that is Holes the wrong way around, in that he saw the film before he read the book. However the film was so good ~ a joyous telling of a brilliant story of circumstance, fate and odd segments of plot roped together to form a seemingly miraculous whole ~ that the book was a must~read. And although the ...  Read the complete review

~ ~ I’m not in the habit of reading kiddies’ books. Really I’m not. But when my wee lass practically implored me to read a book called “Holes” by an American author called Louis Sachar, then I knew before I even picked it up that it was going to be something special. You see, she wouldn’t be in the ...  Read the complete review

Holes, by Louis Sachar won the 1999 Newbery Medal. Each year the Newbery Medal is awarded by the American Library Association for the most distinguished American children's books published the previous year. It has been awarded many other prestigious award. The real question is ‘Does Holes deserve to win this prestigious ...  Read the complete review

This book has attracted a lot of media attention and won some prestigious prizes. On reading it recently, I saw what all the fuss was about. 'Holes' is a highly original plot-driven novel for readers who are ready to go beyond Harry Potter and Jacqueline Wilson. A bright 10-year-old would enjoy this, but it would not be too childish for an ...  Read the complete review