![]() Louis is best known for the award-winning Holes, which has also been made into a major film. Written in a fresh, surreal voice and set amid a boiling desert landscape, this poignant, cinematic work is impossible to forget.Īlso available: Read and Respond activities to accompany Holes. ![]() But is that all there is to it – or must Stanley dig up the truth?Ī marvellous work of magic realism which blends past and future, myth and reality into one shimmering mirage-like plot, Holes is a genuinely unique book to which even the most reluctant readers are drawn. Every day, Stanley must toil in the blazing sun and dig his own hole. The evil warden of the camp (in poisoned red nail polish and prowling snake-skin boots), claims that digging a hole each day is the way to turn a bad boy into a good boy. So when he’s found guilty of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to a boot camp in the sweltering desert, Stanley isn’t surprised. ![]() Stanley Yelnats’s family has always had bad luck the fault of a gypsy curse put on his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather. The winner of countless awards, Holes is a truly remarkable tale of fate, resilience and survival. ![]() The judge said, “You may go to jail, or you may go to Camp Green Lake.” Stanley was from a poor family. ![]()
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