Funny story: I'm trying to shelve this book, and can't remember if it had been banned (but I thought it had - google confirmed). At the same time, my friend Allison and I are chatting on Google Chat, and she starts ranting about how ridiculous book banning is (an opinion with which I agree wholehear...
Sachar never fails to entertain as a writer. I read There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom when I was younger, and I loved the book. Holes is nothing short of amazing. This book contains humor, strength, racism, religion, and social and moral dilemmas. I applaud Sarchar's device on filling in the ...
Protagonists with palindromic names are only cool in kids' fiction (although i suspect Thomas Pynchon could pull it off). So, dear Stanley Yelnats, please change your first and/or last name, because it's painful to read.Oh, yeah. He was in a book too, right? A disappointing kids' book that could hav...
An enjoyable read. Now I know why my daughter wanted me to read it so bad. The only thing that I noticed was that Stanley digs up the top to a tube of lipstick that supposedly belonged to a woman who lived over a 100 years ago, but metal tubes of lipstick were not invented until the 1920s or 30s.
I read this at my son's request and thought it was an incredibly cute book and can see why it was so popular amongst pre-teens. I liked it because it was clean for him as well..always a good thing in preteen lit.
This is the first book I ever remember actively disliking. Even in elementary school, I was bored every time I had to read it, which was multiple times across a few different grade levels. I never got the appeal of the outlandish story or enjoyed Stanley and his peers as much as my classmates did. I...
I watched the movie first and loved it, so I knew I had to read the book. Stanley Yelnats is sent to Camp Green Lake to serve his 18-month sentence for a crime that he didn't commit. Each boy is required to dig a hole five feet high and five feet wide. The warden and the counselors say that it build...
I read this along with my entire highschool second year English class as a group read. I remember really enjoying this book, especially the chapters involving the love of Sam and Miss Katherine, and how his death changed her from a schoolteacher to Kissing Kate Barlow, who only kissed the men she ki...
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