There are also the intertwining stories of outlaw, Kissin' Kate Barlow, who was a school teacher in the town where the prison camp is now. Through a series of events, Stanley and Zero escape the prison camp into the desert. Zero and Stanley become close and Zero opens up to him that he was the one who caused Stanely to come to the prison camp in the first place because he stole the shoes and then tried to get rid of them. Stanley befriends a boy in his work group, Zero and teaches him how to read and write. The prison camp is also in the middle of the desert and each boy has to dig one hole each day about five feet deep and five feet wide as punishment. In the prison camp he meets the other boys in his work group, all of whom go by some sort of nickname like Zig Zag, X-ray, etc. Stanley and his family are down-on-their-luck and he thinks this is just another part of their family curse inherited from his pig-stealing. The story concerns Stanley Yelnats, a young boy on his way to a juvenile prison camp after he is (wrongly) convicted of stealing a famous baseball player's shoes from a charity event. I read the book first and immediately it became one of those books that I read over and over and over again. It caught my attention because at the same time there was a movie version of the book being released by Disney. I remember first reading Holes when I was in middle school, like around 7th or 8th grade. *Includes a double bonus: an excerpt from Small Steps, the follow-up to Holes, as well as an excerpt from the New York Times bestseller Fuzzy Mud. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment-and redemption.

The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. It doesn’t take long for Stanley to realize there’s more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep.

A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. 'A smart jigsaw puzzle of a novel.' - New York Times ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIMEĭig deep in this award-winning, modern classic that will remind readers that adventure is right around the corner-or just under your feet!.

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