Holes*

Title: Holes

Author: Louis Sachar

ISBN: 9780440414803

Genre: Adventure, Survival

Award: Newbery Medal

Summary

Stanley Yelnats was accused of stealing and was sentenced to Camp Green Lake, a detention facility, for 18 months. Camp Green Lake is located in the middle of a desert. In Camp Green Lake, Stanley and other campers were assigned to dig one hole a day. The warden claims that it can build character. After days in the camp, Stanley learned that the warden is searching for some buried treasure of an outlaw Kate Barlow. In a coincidence, this same outlaw had robbed Stanley's great-grandfather. With some incidents, one of the campers, Zero run away from the camp, and Stanley chased after him because he thinks is causing it. Stanley founded Zero.  Stanley thinks he knew where the treasure was buried, so he try to find the treasure and make a deal with the warden.

Review

I was attracted by title in the first place. Why it titled holes? I think the author had done an excellent job on connecting Stanley's story and the onion picker's story. It is marvelous that two stories are connected tightly. Is it destiny? Or is it just coincides? Sometime it is hard to explain why things happen. It may be just the will of god. I dislike about the idea of make the kids digging holes. It just did not make any sense to me. In addition, why no one had questioned it before? It just seems not reasonable to me.