Holes

Hook:

"There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. There was a very large lake here, the largest lake in Texas. That was over a hundred years ago. Now it is just dry, flat wasteland. There used to be a town of Green Lake as well. The town shriveled and dried up along with the lake, and the people who lived there." (page 3)

"He climbed out of his hole and sifted his fingers through the pile. He felt something hard and metallic. He pulled it out. It was a gold tube, about as long and as wide as the second finger on his right hand. The tube was open at one end and closed at the other. He used a few drops of his precious water to clean it. There seemed to be some kind of design on the flat, closed end. He poured a few more drops of water on it and rubbed it on the inside of his pants pocket. He looked again at the design engraved into the flat bottom of the tube. He could see an outline of a heart, with the letters K B etched inside it." (pages 60 and 61)

"The lizard landed on Kate's bare ankle. It's sharp black teeth bit into her leg. Its white tongue lapped up the droplets of blood that leaked out of the wound. Kate smiled. There was nothing they could do to her anymore. 'Start digging,' she said. 'Where is it?' Linda screeched. 'where'd you bury it?' Trout demanded. Kate Barlow died laughing." (page 123)

Recommendation:
Have you ever done something really really bad? I bet not as bad as Stanley. I can't tell you exactly what he did but it probably had to do with his dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-grandfather. Stanley Yelants is a kid who just wants to fit in, but he can't when his family is so desperate for money his father is trying to find a way to recycle old sneakers. When Sneakers fall from the sky! It seems to good to be true and it is. It lands Stanley in the wasteland Camp Green Lake. There's not even a lake! So he's out there digging holes in the blazing heat, while the Warden sits in her air conditioned cabin all cozy. UGGGGG! Stanley encounters the strangest group of juvenile delinquents in the world possibly! The kids there have all done bad things so they are digging holes to "build character"! Stanley thinks the warden wants something else, something more important than helping criminals. What is it though? I'm not telling you! I can tell you this though, to uncover these mysteries... Start digging!

Book by: Lois Sachar
Blog by: Madison H.
Genre: Fiction