Reading Blog

Holes is a strange miss-match of stories which are loosely connected - yet somehow work. Holes is quite an interesting read. It's about several things - but mostly it's about Stanley Yelnats, a teenage boy from a poor family who has the misfortune of being caught with a stolen pair of shoes (because they fell on him) and he is sent to a juvenile detention facility. The facility is on an old dried up lake, and the inmates spend their time digging holes. Their is a backstory about Stanley's grandparents, and a backstory to the lake - which makes the book weird and interesting. I actually didn't like the book as well as the movie, but you might not feel the same way. This book is fun and entertaining, and definitely geared to our age range.