My kid liked this better than I did. I thought it was mostly phoned in, with a flimsy plot, a lot of cheap shots and cardboard characters. Then the movie came out, and I understood. It was meant to be a movie all the time, it was only pretending to be a book.
In Holes, Stanley Yelnats is found guilty of a crime he didn’t commit and has the choice of going to prison or Camp Green Lake. Unfortunately, Camp Green Lake is neither green nor in possession of a lake and the warden believes digging a hole a day will help the boys build character. However, Stanle...
Stanley Yelnats is an overweight teenager and a victim of bullying when a pair of old sneakers belonging to a famous sports person falls from the sky. He brings them home to his father who is working on a plan to recycle old sneakers. This sounds pretty normal except a curse started by his great gre...
This book was quite charming. Sometimes it even was funny, in an almost absurd way. Overall I really enjoyed reading it; it was a lovely little compact book to read, the language was easily understood and the symbolism was very well-used. I really liked how Sachar managed to intertwine two stories i...
I had this book read to me in intermediate school and I hated it. Though after seeing the movie, then reading the book myself, I soon realised it wasn't the book I hated, it was the way it was read out aloud by my teacher.Every child should read this book at some point.
I won't lie, I read this back between the fourth and fifth grade. However, there is a story.My family had stopped in the town of Half Moon Bay, CA dropping my sister off at music camp and before my parents were going to drop me off at Space Camp the next day (back in the day when there was still a S...
This is the only book whose movie I thought was far better. Ah! I never thought I'd say that! But it's true. And mostly, it's because the story is so wonderful, but the writing style brings the book down by a lot. It's possible that this book was intended for 8 year olds to be able to read, in which...
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