HOLES
Holes was written by louis sachar in 1998. It won the national book award for young literature in 1999 and also the Newbery medal in 1999 the author has also written the Wayside School series, the Marvin Redpost series, There’s a Boy in the Girls’ Bathroom, Small Steps, Fuzzy Mud, and The card turner. The author is 71 years old and lives in Texas with his wife Carla and his two dogs. They also had a kid together who moved out and is working as a zoo keeper.
Holes is a book about Stanley Yelnats, a kid who was wrongly put on trial for stealing shoes he didn’t even steal. He had to choose between prison or a boy camp so naturally he chose the camp. His family had always been unlucky because his great grandfather was supposed to bring an old lady called madam zeroni up a mountain to drink the water but he didn’t so she put a curse on his family. The same great grandfather got really rich but was robbed in the same place as this camp. Stanley and the other boys have to dig a hole every day 5ft down and 5ft wide because the warden is trying to find where the person who robbed Stanley’s great grandfather’s money took it for themselves. He meets a boy called zero but zero eventually runs away from the camp and so does Stanley after a couple days of zero being gone. They meet up but zero is about to die so Stanley carries him up the mountain where they find water. And then suddenly Stanley’s luck changes because he broke the curse by bringing madame zeronis great grandson up the mountain to drink the water. When they go back to the camp they see that the warden had just found Stanley’s great grandfather’s money but that’s when Stanley’s lawyer comes and takes Stanley and Zero away with his great grandfather’s money.
I really enjoyed holes. Because every detail about the story connected with each other at the end leaving the reader with a mind blowing ending that doesn’t disappoint in the slightest. The highlight of my read was realizing that the curse lifted because zero was Zeroni’s great grandson and Stanley carried him up the mountain. I would rate the book a 9/10 easily the best book I have ever read.