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I Need to post somthing for a free document. Please excuse this as my essays due in 5 min. Louis Sachar's inventive book Holes received the 1999 John Newbery Medal Award. This once-a-year award goes to the author of the most distinguished book contribution to American literature for children, and Holes deserves to wear the prestigious seal on its cover. With all its tall tales and interesting characters, Holes takes place in a timeless world and will probably read just as well in 25 years as it does now.
Overweight, unpopular Stanley Yelnats (notice the palindrome) finds a cool pair of sneakers that literally fall from the sky and hit him on the head. Unfortunately, this weird bit of luck lands him in court where he is charged with stealing the famous, smelly pair of sneakers that happens to belong to famous baseball player Clyde Livingston who had just donated them for a charity auction. In court, Stanley tells the truth about how he found the shoes, or rather how the shoes found him. No one believes him, and he gets sent to Camp Green Lake -- a camp for bad boys located in the middle of a hot, dry, Texas lake.
Why is Stanley so unlucky? Blame it on Stanley's no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather, Elya Yelnats. Years ago in the old country, Elya reneged on a promise. Therefore, a gypsy placed a curse upon Elya and all his descendents. Now Stanley and his family have to deal with the curse, and Stanley's rotten luck gets him sent to Camp Green Lake where all the "campers" have an odd, exhausting chore: to dig one 5x5x5-foot hole every day in the sweltering heat.
Upon arrival, Stanley tries to fit in with his other tent-mates, all of whom have their own sensitive, hard-luck stories, touching upon topics such as illiteracy and homelessness. No first names are used by the boys, only nicknames: X-ray, Zero, Armpit, Squid, Zigzag, Magnet, and Caveman, which is Stanley's nickname. Stanley quickly discovers the pecking order and
Overweight, unpopular Stanley Yelnats (notice the palindrome) finds a cool pair of sneakers that literally fall from the sky and hit him on the head. Unfortunately, this weird bit of luck lands him in court where he is charged with stealing the famous, smelly pair of sneakers that happens to belong to famous baseball player Clyde Livingston who had just donated them for a charity auction. In court, Stanley tells the truth about how he found the shoes, or rather how the shoes found him. No one believes him, and he gets sent to Camp Green Lake -- a camp for bad boys located in the middle of a hot, dry, Texas lake.
Why is Stanley so unlucky? Blame it on Stanley's no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather, Elya Yelnats. Years ago in the old country, Elya reneged on a promise. Therefore, a gypsy placed a curse upon Elya and all his descendents. Now Stanley and his family have to deal with the curse, and Stanley's rotten luck gets him sent to Camp Green Lake where all the "campers" have an odd, exhausting chore: to dig one 5x5x5-foot hole every day in the sweltering heat.
Upon arrival, Stanley tries to fit in with his other tent-mates, all of whom have their own sensitive, hard-luck stories, touching upon topics such as illiteracy and homelessness. No first names are used by the boys, only nicknames: X-ray, Zero, Armpit, Squid, Zigzag, Magnet, and Caveman, which is Stanley's nickname. Stanley quickly discovers the pecking order and