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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (40573)9/20/2005 9:44:57 AM
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Holes
Louis Sachar
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. 233 pages. $16.00
ISBN: 0-374-33265-7
Family/Friendship
Reviewed by Katherine Barr -- Florida State University

Found guilty of stealing a pair of sneakers that were to be auctioned off to raise money for the homeless, Stanley Yelnats is sent to Camp Green Lake, a correctional facility in an old lakebed that is now desert. He realizes that although the warden claims that digging builds character, the boys in the facility are actually looking for something in these holes. The key to this mystery is hidden in the relationship between Stanley's family and that of the Zeroni family, a tale that goes back four generations to Latvia when Stanley's great-great-grandfather broke a promise to Madame Zeroni. Hector Zeroni and Stanley meet at the camp, find themselves pitted against the warden and the other boys, and help each other survive in the desert thereby breaking Madame Zerone's curse on the Yelnats family.

Although the outcome might be guessed, Sachar creates a suspenseful tale that keeps the reader cheering for Stanley and Hector as the boys overcome each obstacle in their path, including a crazed warden searching for treasure and the poisonous, yellow-spotted lizards living in holes in the desert.

Holes won the 1999 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Excellence in Children's Literature in the fiction category.
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