Holes by Louis Sachar Guided Reading Questions

1998 novel past Louis Sachar

Holes

Writer	Louis Sachar
Linguistic communication	English
Genre	Adventure
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux (US) Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Ediciones SM (Espana)
Publication engagement	Baronial 20, 1998
ISBN	978-0-786-22186-8
OCLC	3800257333232
Dewey Decimal	[Fic] 21
LC Class	PZ7.S1185 Ho 1998

Holes is a 1998 young adult novel written past Louis Sachar and start published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book centers on Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to Army camp Green Lake, a correctional kick camp in a desert in Texas, subsequently being falsely defendant of theft. The plot explores the history of the area and how the actions of several characters in the past have afflicted Stanley's life in the nowadays. These interconnecting stories touch on themes such as racism, homelessness, illiteracy, and arranged marriage.

The book was both a critical and commercial success. Much of the praise for the book has centered around its complex plot, interesting characters, and representation of people of color and incarcerated youth. It won the 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People'southward Literature and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the yr's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children". In 2012 it was ranked number half dozen among all-time children's novels in a survey published by Schoolhouse Library Journal.

Holes was adapted by Walt Disney Pictures as a characteristic flick of the aforementioned name released in 2003. The motion-picture show received generally positive reviews from critics, grossing $71 million, and was released in conjunction with the book companion Stanley Yelnats's Survival Guide to Campsite Dark-green Lake. A sequel to Holes entitled Small-scale Steps was published in 2006 and centers on one of the secondary characters in the novel, Armpit.

Plot [edit]

Stanley Yelnats 4 is from an allegedly cursed, low-income family, for which they blame Stanley'due south "no-practiced-dingy-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-gramps".^[1] Stanley's latest stroke of misfortune occurs when he is wrongfully convicted of stealing a pair of athletic shoes that belonged to a famous baseball game role player. He is sent to Campsite Green Lake, a juvenile corrections facility which is located in the middle of a dried-upwardly desert lake. The "campers" are assigned to dig one cylindrical hole each twenty-four hours, which the Warden claims "builds their character". The novel alternates this story with two gear up in the past, with interrelated but singled-out plot lines.

Elya Yelnats [edit]

Stanley'southward Latvian slap-up-dandy-grandpa, Elya Yelnats, is in love with Myra, the most beautiful girl in the village. However, he faces competition from the local pig farmer Igor Barkov, who is offering Myra's begetter Morris his fattest pig in exchange for her hand in matrimony. Elya goes to his friend Madame Zeroni, an old Egyptian fortune teller with a missing foot, for help. Despite non approving of Myra as a partner for Elya due to her lack of intelligence, Zeroni takes pity on Elya and gives him a tiny piglet, instructing him to carry information technology up a mountain every twenty-four hour period and permit information technology drink from a stream while singing a special vocal to information technology. Each time, the pig will grow bigger; if he does this every solar day, including the day Myra is to be married, his pig will be fatter than any of Igor'south. Zeroni says that in return, Elya must then carry her up the mountain and sing to her. She warns him that if he does not do this, his family will exist cursed.

Elya follows her directions every solar day except for the terminal; as a result, his pig and Igor's weigh exactly the same. However, afterwards realizing Madame Zeroni was correct near Myra's lack of intelligence when she'south unable to choose betwixt him or Igor, Elya leaves in disgust and decides to motion to America, but forgets his promise to Zeroni. Though he falls in love with and marries the kind and intelligent Sarah Miller, he becomes aggress by bad luck. Elya tells Sarah about the curse and tells her to leave him. Sarah refuses to get out Elya and the song that he sang to the squealer becomes a lullaby that is passed downwards amongst his descendants, hoping that it will one day interruption the expletive.

Kissin' Kate Barlow [edit]

In the year 1888, the town of Green Lake is a flourishing lakeside customs. Katherine Barlow, the white local schoolteacher, falls in dearest with Sam, an African-American onion farmer, while rejecting advances from the wealthy Charles "Trout" Walker (nicknamed Trout because his anxiety smelled like dead fish.). Katherine and Sam are seen kissing by Trout Walker, and then he forms a mob and they fire downwardly the schoolhouse Katherine is working at. All the same, the town sheriff refuses to help Katherine, as Trout Walker reported that they kissed, and that it'southward against the law. Katherine finds Sam and they attempt to escape beyond the lake in Sam's rowboat, only Walker and the mob intercept them with Walker's motorboat. Sam is shot expressionless, while Katherine is "rescued" against her wishes. From then on, pelting stops falling upon Green Lake.

Three days later, Katherine shoots the boondocks sheriff as revenge for his refusal to help. She and then becomes a notorious outlaw called "Kissin' Kate Barlow", nicknamed then for her calling card of leaving a red lipstick kiss on the cheeks of the men she kills. For the side by side twenty years, she robs multiple banks across the state of Texas. Amidst her victims is Stanley'south great-granddaddy, who she leaves stranded in the desert; he survives after finding refuge on "God's pollex". She returns to the ruins of Green Lake and is establish by a now-destitute Trout Walker and his wife Linda, one of Katherine's old students who married Trout for his money. They try to strength her to reveal where she buried the money she'd stolen from numerous banks, but she refuses, telling them they and their descendants can spend the balance of their lives earthworks in the desert and never find her boodle. Just then, a xanthous-spotted lizard sneaks up and bites Katherine. She uses its venom as an advantage and thinks that no one will be able to threaten her with murder. Earlier she dies, Katherine tells them to commencement digging, for it will have a lifetime or more for them to ever detect her compensation.

Camp Green Lake [edit]

The Warden allows the campers the rest of their day off if they detect annihilation "interesting". Stanley begins to suspect the Warden is looking for something. During one dig, he finds ane of Barlow's lipstick tubes. He gives it to X-Ray, the ringleader of his group, who pretends to find information technology the side by side day in a different location. The Warden is excited by the discovery and orders them to enlarge X-Ray'due south hole. Stanley afterwards befriends Zero, a camper who quietly keeps to himself, and teaches Zero to read in return for Nothing digging part of Stanley's holes. This leads to an argument with the other campers, and so the staff. Nothing then flees. The camp staff decide to erase their records of Cypher, whose full name is Hector Zeroni, and let him dice in the desert.

A few days later, Stanley escapes the army camp to await for Hector and finds him taking refuge under the remains of Sam's boat, subsisting on preserved jars of Kate Barlow's spiced peaches, which he calls "Sploosh". Hector refuses to get dorsum to the military camp. Stanley then notices a mountain in the distance that resembles a thumbs up sign, and recalls his slap-up-grandfather claimed to find "refuge on God'south thumb" later being stranded in the desert by Kate Barlow. They journey across the desert and up the mountain, where they find a field of onions that was once Sam'south. The boys eat the onions and notice water by digging in the basis, and Stanley sings Madame Zeroni'south song to Hector, breaking the family expletive. Hector then reveals that he was the one who stole Clyde Livingston's shoes. Wondering if their meeting was destiny, Stanley asks Hector if he wants to help him dig one last pigsty.

They return to camp and dig in the pigsty where Stanley first found the lipstick tube, unearthing a suitcase and venomous lizards. The Warden and the staff appear and need they paw it over, simply retreat considering of the lizards, which are passive to Stanley and Hector due to the onions they consumed. The Warden is revealed to be Trout Walker's granddaughter and she'southward been using the camp and the campers to observe Kate Barlow's stolen treasure. Stanley's chaser appears at the camp, explaining that Stanley has been exonerated. Hector reveals the suitcase belongs to the Yelnats family unit, stopping the Warden from taking it. Fearing that the Warden will kill Hector if they leave him behind, Stanley refuses to leave unless Hector can come along. The attorney asks for Hector's file, but the army camp staff are naturally unable to find it, so Hector is also released. Stanley and Hector then say adieu to the other campers, and as they bulldoze away, the drought in Greenish Lake comes to an terminate.

The suitcase contains financial documents that are worth shut to 2 million dollars, which is split evenly betwixt Stanley and Hector. Stanley's family buys a new house and Hector hires a squad of investigators to notice his missing mother. Stanley's male parent also makes farther money by inventing an antitoxin to foot odor, made from peaches and onions, and named "Sploosh", which is endorsed by Clyde Livingston. Meanwhile, Camp Light-green Lake is closed and sold to become a newly remodeled Girl Scouts' camp, and the book ends with Hector's mom singing the second verse of the "If Just" song, reunited with Hector.

Characters [edit]

Camp Green Lake [edit]

• Stanley Yelnats Four (besides known as "Caveman" by the rest of the campers, but referred to in the book by his proper proper name): Stanley is a 14-year-one-time boy who does not have any friends from school and is oft picked on by his classmates and the schoolhouse bully. Stanley's family is cursed with bad luck, and although they do not have much coin, they e'er try to remain hopeful and look on the bright side of things. Stanley shares these traits with his family unit and, although he does not take a lot of self-confidence, he is non hands depressed, a characteristic that helps him adjust to the horrendous conditions of Military camp Green Lake. However, he has a bad habit of blaming his great great granddaddy when he gets in trouble. This habit made him impudent.^[ii] As the book progresses, Stanley slowly gains strength. He identifies the people who threaten him, similar the Warden, and while he tries non to get in trouble he likewise stands up for himself and his friends and family. Stanley rebels for the rights of his friends when he steals Mr. Sir's truck to look for his friend Zero in the dry lake bed.^[3]
• Aught (Hector Zeroni): Cypher is known to be the best digger at Camp Dark-green Lake. And so ofttimes, he is considered to be "stupid" or a mere naught by the other boys and the counselors alike. He lacks an education, meaning he cannot really read or write. However, he is smart and manages to stand for himself in the face of adversity, breaking Mr. Pendanski'south nose with a shovel after ane besides many snide remarks. Typically he is noted equally the graphic symbol that hardly speaks due to the fact that he is wary of those who mock him. He is said to always have a scowl on his face and does not like to answer questions. Goose egg is shown to exist an honest character afterward becoming close friends with Stanley. Aught is the ane who stole the shoes that Stanley was arrested for and defendant of stealing. He is the great-dandy-slap-up-grandson of Madame Zeroni, the woman who put a curse on Stanley'southward family unit. He has been homeless for most of his life, also equally existence abandoned by his mother at a very immature age. Although he suffers quite a bit, he always seems to persevere and come out on acme.
• X-Ray (Rex Washburn): X-Ray is the unofficial head of the boys in Group D. 10-Ray decides that Stanley volition exist called Caveman and fixes the order of the line for water. X-Ray maintains his position as the leader of the boys even though he is one of the smallest and tin barely see without his glasses. He convinces Stanley to requite him the lipstick tube that Stanley finds in his hole so that he tin have the day off instead of Stanley. Ten-Ray is able to maintain his position at the head of the group through a system of rewards and allies. Every fourth dimension that Stanley does something squeamish for 10-Ray, X-Ray is nice to Stanley and stands up for him when the other boys pick on him. When Stanley becomes friends with Zippo, however, X-Ray's system is threatened and he becomes hostile towards Stanley. His nickname Ten-ray comes from it being pig Latin of his actual name, Rex.
• Squid (Alan): Squid is a member of Group D at Army camp Green Lake. He is oftentimes the 1 for taunting Stanley for sending and receiving letters to his mother. Just like Ten-Ray, Squid is very tough but very subservient to X-Ray'southward rules and directions. Still, he does have a sensitive side to him, as Stanley wakes to hear him crying one dark, and Alan asks Stanley to write to his (Alan's) mother when Stanley leaves Military camp Light-green Lake.
• Magnet (José): Some other member of Group D. Magnet earned his nickname considering of his power to steal, he got into Army camp Green Lake for stealing animals from the zoo and refers to his fingers as "lilliputian magnets".
• Armpit (Theodore Johnson): 1 of X-Ray'south shut friends at camp, he pushes Stanley when Stanley calls him Theodore. His nickname Armpit is due to him being stung by a scorpion at camp and the venom traveling upwards into his armpit, causing him to mutter about his armpit hurting.
• ZigZag (Ricky): Zigzag is described as being the tallest child of Group D, constantly looking similar he has been electrocuted, with frizzy hair. Stanley often thinks he is the weirdest and craziest kid at Military camp Green Lake. Zigzag is the one who hit Stanley on the head with a shovel, but later did apologize. Zigzag suffers from paranoia, highlighting his displayed "craziness".
• Twitch (Brian): A car thief who arrives at campsite after Stanley. He got his nickname for his constant twitching.
• The Warden (Ms. Walker): Running Camp Greenish Lake, she is known to be violent, abusive, and quite rude. She uses her power and privilege to get what she wants and make members of the camp do equally she pleases. She has hidden cameras, using them to spy on the members of the camp. She is often idea to have hidden cameras in the showers, causing Stanley to be paranoid whenever he takes a shower, rushing out equally fast as possible. She wears blast polish traced with rattlesnake venom, and scratches those who displease or get against what she says. She has the members of Camp Green Lake digging holes to expect for Kate Barlow's hidden treasure. She is the granddaughter of Charles "Trout" Walker. Her family unit had been digging the treasure out since her birth, but to no success.
• Mr. Sir (Marion Sevillo): I of the counselors at Camp Dark-green Lake, he is constantly eating sunflower seeds. He took up this habit subsequently deciding to quit smoking. He is known to be rude and tough.
• Mr. Pendanski: In Grouping D at Camp Greenish Lake Mr. Pendanski is in charge. Mr. Pendanski may seem friendly at first glance, but he is just as mean as the Warden and Mr. Sir. He never stops making fun of Zero e'er since he has been at the camp, which comes back to bite him when the boy cracks him in the face with a shovel.

Town of Dark-green Lake [edit]

• Katherine Barlow (Kissin' Kate Barlow): Katherine Barlow is a sweetness and intelligent woman who teaches in a one-room school business firm on Green Lake one hundred and ten years before Stanley arrives at Camp Green Lake. She falls in honey with Sam, a man who sells onions in the town. Although the rest of the white people in the town are racist and enforce rules that prohibit black people from going to school, Kate, who is white, does non care about the color of a person'due south skin and she loves Sam for the person that he is. When Kate and Sam kiss, the angry townsfolk impale Sam and destroy her honey schoolhouse. Kate is devastated by Sam's death and becomes Kissin' Kate Barlow, one of the most feared outlaws in the West. She always leaves her mark past kissing someone when she finishes killing them; if she had only robbed them, she would leave them in the hot desert. She is the outlaw responsible for robbing Stanley Yelnats I (Stanley's ancestor). Kate dies when she picks upward a yellow-spotted lizard and it bites her wrist, just dies laughing considering the Walker family will never detect her treasure. The lipstick tube that Stanley finds during his second week at Military camp Green Lake was owned by Kate Barlow.
• Sam: Sam is an African-American farmer in the boondocks Dark-green Lake, Texas who grows onions. He believes onions are the cure to everything and makes many remedies from onions. He also has an immense love for his ass, Mary Lou. His human relationship with Kate begins when he exchanges his onions for some jars of peaches. He is murdered in cold blood by Charles "Trout" Walker. His death sets a expletive upon the lake, causing the rain to stop coming and the lake to dry up.
• Charles "Trout" Walker: Charles "Trout" Walker is an extremely spoiled son of a rich family in Green Lake. He gets upset when Kate denies his request to date her. This adds on to the reason of causing him to lead the townspeople to burn down down the schoolhouse and kill Sam. His nickname Trout comes from his foot mucus that causes his feet to odor like expressionless fish. After Kate leaves to get an outlaw, he marries Linda Miller just his family loses everything afterwards the lake dries upwards. He is The Warden's grandfather, who upon his decease, opens upwards the juvenile detention campsite to increase the efficiency of finding Kate Barlow's hidden treasure.
• Stanley Yelnats I: Stanley Yelnats I is the son of Elya Yelnats too as the great-grandfather of Stanley Yelnats IV. He was the one whose treasure was stolen by Kate Barlow while he was moving from New York to California. He is known to take survived by climbing to the top of a thumb-shaped mountain (God'southward Thumb) which happens to exist Sam's quondam onion field.

Mid-1800s Latvia [edit]

• Elya Yelnats: Elya is the nifty-great-grandfather of Stanley. He is oft referred to equally his "No-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather", constantly being blamed for everything that goes incorrect in Stanley's life. He is considered to be the reason why the Yelnats family has such bad luck. Later he fell in love with the woman in Republic of latvia, he travels to America, forgetting to go through with the promise he fabricated to an old woman named Madame Zeroni. This causes generations of bad luck to trickle down the Yelnats family tree. All the same, he does pass downwardly an important song that Madame Zeroni taught him in Latvia.
• Madame Zeroni: Madame Zeroni is the not bad-swell-great-grandmother of Hector Zeroni (Goose egg). She is nifty friends with Elya Yelnats, and she gives him a pig. Because Elya breaks his promise of carrying her to the top of the mountain, she is considered to exist the one who put a "curse" on the Yelnats family.
• Myra Menke: Myra is the virtually beautiful girl in the Latvian village of Elya and Madame Zeroni. Madame Zeroni compares her to a flowerpot. Myra's father promised to honour her manus in marriage to whichever suitor can raise the fattest pig. When the pigs were the aforementioned size, Myra asked Elya and Igor Barkov to guess a number between i and 10, showing her inability to make her ain decisions.
• Igor Barkov: Igor was Elya's competitor for the hand of Myra Menke. He was already old and fatty, but was a successful pig farmer.

Pocket-size characters [edit]

• Mr. Yelnats (Stanley Yelnats Three): Mr. Yelnats is Stanley's father. He is an inventor and quite smart, but extremely unlucky. He attempts to discover a style to recycle quondam sneakers and considering of this, the Yelnats' flat smells bad. Nonetheless, he eventually discovers a cure to ridding foot odor and is able to hire a lawyer, Ms. Morengo, to get Stanley out of Camp Green Lake.
• Mrs. Yelnats: Mrs. Yelnats is Stanley's female parent. She does not believe in curses but always points out the terrible luck that the Yelnats have.
• Barf Bag (Louis): A "camper" who left Camp Green Lake before Stanley arrived. He deliberately got a rattlesnake to bite him in club to be hospitalized.

Setting [edit]

Camp Green Lake is located on a dried-upwards lake in the U.Southward. state of Texas.^[4] The proper name is a imitation description, as the area is a parched, barren desert. The only weather condition is the scorching sun. No rain has fallen since the day Sam was murdered. The only plants mentioned are two oak copse in front of the Warden's cabin; the book notes that "the Warden owns the shade." The abandoned boondocks of Green Lake is located past the side of the lakebed. Army camp Greenish Lake is a correctional kick camp, where "campers" spend near of their time digging holes. The majority of the volume alternates between the present day story of Stanley Yelnats, the story of Elya Yelnats in Latvia (mid-1800s) and the story of Katherine Barlow in the town of Green Lake (most a generation subsequently). Later chapters focus less on the past stories.

Themes [edit]

Fairy tales [edit]

The themes typical of a folk or fairy tale are present throughout the novel, notable in both Stanley and Elya'southward narratives.^{[5] [6]} Elya must go on an risk to win his love's approval and evidence his own worth and he is somewhen placed nether a witch'south curse. Stanley'south bad luck is blamed on the curse left on his not bad-great-granddad and the Yelnats family easily believes in the power of this curse.^[v] Both Stanley and Elya are like to fairy tale characters and are morally good, heroic protagonists who must overcome the challenges predestined for them.^[6] Both story lines are accompanied by a magic that is seen in the mountain stream, Madame Zeroni's vocal, and the healing power of the onions. Each of these elements in Holes mirror elements frequently constitute in fairy tales.^[5]

Names [edit]

Throughout the novel, names human action as a theme that allows the characters to disassociate their lives at Campsite Green Lake from their lives back in the real earth. Names besides demonstrate irony—Military camp Green Lake is non actually a camp, it'due south located in a desert, and there is no lake. The "campers" all label themselves differently and place with names such as Armpit and Ten-Ray and the guards are referred to every bit counselors. One of the counselors is referred to by the boys every bit "Mom", representing the absent parents at Camp Green Lake.^[7] Only the woman in charge is referred to in a prison-like way and is called "Warden". The different names permit the boys to bond and course a team based in their hatred for their work and the counselors.^[8] Many of the characters also take names that connect them to their family history, like the passing downward of "Stanley Yelnats" and Goose egg's last name of Zeroni, and remind them how the deportment of their ancestors affect their modern-day lives.^[half-dozen] Stanley is the fourth "Stanley Yelnats" in his family, a name that is passed downwards due to its palindromic nature and adds to the connection to family history.^[6]

Labor [edit]

Labor is seen throughout the novel as the children are forced to dig holes while at Camp Dark-green Lake. This theme is unusual in children's literature equally many authors portray children as carefree and without responsibility.^[nine] If they practice engage in work, it is synonymous with play. Critic Maria Nikolajeva contends that Holes is set up apart through the not merely transmission, just forced labor Stanley and the other campers practise daily.^[nine] This is commencement referenced at the beginning of the book when the purpose of the camp is stated: "If you take a bad male child and brand him dig a hole every twenty-four hour period in the hot lord's day, it will plow him into a proficient boy".^[x]

Reception [edit]

Holes has received many accolades:

• John Newbery Medal^[11]
• 1998, U.South. National Book Award for Young People's Literature^[12]
• 1998, American Library Association, Best Books for Immature Adults^[13]
• 1999 Newbery Medal for the yr'south "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children"^[14]
• 1999, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Fiction^[fifteen]
• 2000, Zilveren Zoen^[15]
• 2000, Flicker Tale Children's Book Award^[15]
• 2000, Pennsylvania Young Readers' Pick Award for Grades vi-8^[15]
• 2000, Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Laurels^[15]
• 2001, William Allen White Children's Book Award^[16]
• 2001, Due west Australian Young Readers' Volume Award (WAYRBA) for Older Readers^[15]
• 2001, Yard Canyon Reader Honour for Teen Book^[15]
• 2001, Nene Award^[fifteen]
• 2001, Maryland Black-Eyed Susan Book Laurels for Grade 6-9^[15]
• 2001, Massachusetts Children's Book Accolade^[15]
• 2001, Evergreen Teen Book Award^[fifteen]
• 2003, Soaring Hawkeye Book Award^[15]
• 2002, Sunshine Country Young Readers Laurels for Grades 3-v and Grades vi-eight^[15]
• 2001, Pacific Northwest Library Clan Young Reader'south Choice Honour for Junior^[15]
• 2001, Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis Nominee for Jugendbuch^[15]
• 2001, New Mexico Land of Enchantment Award for Young Adult^[15]
• 2001, Oklahoma Sequoyah Accolade for Children and YA^[xv]
• 2002, Rebecca Caudill Young Readers' Book Honor^[15]
• 2000, Premi Protagonista Jove for Categoria fourteen-15 anys^[fifteen]

Over two decades later on its original publication, Holes continues to be well received by critics and was ranked number 6 among all-time children's novels by School Library Periodical in 2012.^[17]

Betsy Hearne of The New York Times applauded the novel'due south integration of mystery and humor that manages to keep Holes light and fresh, and she characterizes it every bit a "family read-aloud."^[18] Roger Sutton of The Horn Volume Magazine called Sachar'southward declarative style effective, and argues that it helped brand the novel more poignant. Sutton appreciated the positive ending and the suspense that leads the reader to it.^[xix]

Film accommodation [edit]

In 2003, Walt Disney Pictures released a pic version of Holes, which was directed past Andrew Davis and written by Louis Sachar.^[xx]

Sequels [edit]

Two companion novels accept followed Holes: Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Military camp Green Lake (2003) and Small Steps (2006).^[21]

Stanley Yelnats's Survival Guide to Camp Green Lake [edit]

As Louis Sachar states: "Should you ever find yourself at Military camp Light-green Lake—or somewhere similar—this is the guide for y'all." Written from Stanley's signal of view, the volume offers advice on everything from scorpions, rattlesnakes, yellowish-spotted lizards, etc.^[22]

Pocket-sized Steps [edit]

In this sequel to Holes, one-time camper Armpit is now 17 and struggling with the challenges facing an African American teenager with a criminal history. A new friendship with Ginny, who has cerebral palsy, a reunion with sometime friend Ten-Ray, a ticket-scalping scheme, a beautiful popular vocalist, and a frame-up all test Armpit'southward resolve to "Simply accept modest steps and keep moving forward".^[23]

References [edit]

1. ^ Sachar, Louis (2000). Holes . New York: Yearling Books. p. 7. ISBN978-0440414803.
2. ^ "Holes Q & A". www.Louissachar.com . Retrieved January 17, 2017.
3. ^ Sachar, Louis (1998). "Holes", p. 103. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, November 30, 2015.
4. ^ Sachar, Louis (2000). Holes . New York: Yearling. p. 1. ISBN978-0440414803.
5. ^ ^{a b c} Mascia, Elizabeth Yard. (2001). "Holes: Folklore Redux". The ALAN Review. 28 (2): 51. doi:10.21061/alan.v28i2.a.11.
6. ^ ^{a b c d} Pinsent, Pat (September 1, 2002). "Fate and Fortune in a Modern Fairy Tale: Louis Sachar's Holes". Children's Literature in Education. 33 (3): 203–212. doi:ten.1023/A:1019682032315. ISSN 0045-6713. S2CID 170678333.
7. ^ Møllegaard, Kirsten (August xiii, 2010). "Haunting and History in Louis Sachar'south Holes". Western American Literature. 45 (two): 138–161. doi:10.1353/wal.0.0117. ISSN 1948-7142. S2CID 162538705.
8. ^ Wallin, Marie (Jan 2008). "Literacy and the Power of the Law: Louis Sachar's Holes and Lemony Snicket's A Bad Beginning". Angles on the English language Speaking World. 8: 101–110 – via EBSCOhost.
9. ^ ^{a b} Nikolajeva, Maria (2002). ""A Dream of Complete Idleness": Depiction of Labor in Children's Fiction". The Lion and the Unicorn. 26 (iii): 305–321. doi:10.1353/uni.2002.0031. S2CID 144227470.
10. ^ Sachar, Louis (1998). Holes. New York: Dell Yearling. p. v.
11. ^ Sachar, Louis (June 1, 2011). Holes. Random Business firm Children's Books. ISBN978-0-307-79836-7.
12. ^ "1998 National Book Awards Winners and Finalists, The National Book Foundation". www.nationalbook.org . Retrieved April 27, 2018.
13. ^ American Library Clan (September 29, 2006). "All-time Books for Young Adults". Young Adult Library Services Clan (YALSA) . Retrieved March 8, 2021. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
14. ^ "Author Louis Sachar wins 1999 Newbery Medal;Illustrator Mary Azarian wins Caldecott Medal". News and Printing Middle. February 26, 2007. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
15. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r southward} "Holes (Holes, #ane)". Goodreads . Retrieved March eight, 2021. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-condition (link)
16. ^ "Past Winners - William Allen White Children's Book Awards | Emporia State University". www.emporia.edu . Retrieved May 2, 2018.
17. ^ "School Library Journal Top 100 Children's Novels, 2012 Poll | Book awards | LibraryThing". world wide web.librarything.com . Retrieved May 2, 2018.
18. ^ Hearne, Betsy (1998). "He Didn't Exercise Information technology". The New York Times.
19. ^ Sutton, Roger (September 1, 1998). "Review of Holes". The Horn Volume.
20. ^ Holes at the Internet Motion picture Database
21. ^ Minor Steps: Summary and book reviews of Pocket-sized Steps past Louis Sachar
22. ^ Sachar, Louis. "Stanley Yelnats's Survival Guide to Army camp Green Lake". Louis Sachar. Archived from the original on September 23, 2015.
23. ^ Sachar, Louis. "Louis Sachar: Booklist". Louis Sachar. Louis Sachar. Archived from the original on October 5, 2015.

External links [edit]

• Holes at publisher Scholastic Corporation

Awards
Preceded past Out of the Grit	Newbery Medal recipient 1999	Succeeded by Bud, Not Buddy
Preceded past New category	Winner of the William Allen White Children's Book Honour Grades half-dozen–8 2001	Succeeded by Bud, Not Buddy

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