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Booktalk
#1
Hi, my name is Tyler, and I
am here to tell you about one of my favorite books ever written. This book
is called Holes.
It starts out with a boy who
has two choices; he can go to jail or go to a so-called camp for bad boys.
At this camp they make you dig holes five feet wide, and five feet long
until you finish the hole. Then you can stop. It’s been a known fact that
no one survives. Practically every kid purposely tries to hurt himself
so he can rest in his tent. If you lay in the hammock they will have your
head! Anyway, this book will always leave you hanging. If you like laughter,
horror, or anything in between, this is the book for you. If you want to
find out if this boy survives camp read HOLES! (Tyler C., 8th grade
student, Rundlett Middle School)
Booktalk #2
Camp Green Lake is not what
it appears. There is no lake. There is no camp, unless you
consider incarceration a fun way to spend the summer. Stanley is
at the end of his luck, what little he's had all his life. Accused
of stealing sneakers, he is sent away to Camp Green Lake rather than going
to jail. What he finds out is that jail would have been a whole lot
better.
Rising each day early, the
boys are made to dig holes, five feet deep and five feet wide in the hot
Texas sun, avoiding the pitfalls of heat and creatures. Out of necessity,
Stanley learns to live in the group of outcast boys and befriends Zero,
(the name speaks volumes as does Stanley's palindromic one). But
why are they digging these holes for the warden, a woman who paints her
nails with rattlesnake poison? The plot thickens in tall tale fashion
and you can't read fast enough or cheer loud enough for Stanley and Zero.
(New Hampshire Great Stone Face Committee)
Booktalk #3
This story is about a boy Stanley
Yelnats.One day hes a normal kid the next he is acused of stealing a pair
of shoes.He has two options 1 is go to jail 2 is go to camp green lake.Camp
green lake is a wierd place were it never rains and there is no lake.They
have to dig holes five feet wide five feet deep.They don't know what there
looking for but one day stanly finds out. (Justin , student, Musselman
Middle School. Bunker Hill, WV dbjenkin@access.k12.wv.us)
Booktalk #4
Stanley Yelnats is always at
the wrong place at the wrong time. One day Stanley was walking home after
school when a pair of sneakers fell from the sky. Next thing you know Stanley
is digging holes with Zero, Zigzag,, Armpit and others at Camp Green Lake.
Is Camp Green Lake Fun? Why is Stanley digging holes? What are they looking
for? How does his dirty-rotten-stealing-great-grandfather get in to the
story? Will he ever be able to go back home? (Alex Berg, Mansfield High
School Student)
Booktalk #5
Deadly Yellow spotted lizards
surround you...
A pair of sneakers fell from
the sky, Stanley Yelnats is quickly accused of stealing them, he is given
a choice to either go to jail or camp green Lake, he decides to go to camp
Green Lake. It is nothing like it sounds, there is no lake, it is a dry
wasteland and he has to dig a hole 5 feet wide and 5 feet deep every day.
The campers are told they dig holes to build character, but they know they
are not digging to build character. One camper hated it so bad he purposely
got bit by a rattle snake. There are constant fears at fears at camp Green
Lake, there are rattle snakes and deadly yellow spotted lizards. Will Stanley
make it through camp Green Lake? Will he find out why they are digging?
(Dylan, student)
Booktalk #6
Have you ever gotten in trouble
for something you didn�t do? Or, you were just at
the wrong place at the wrong time? Well, that�s how
Stanley Yelnats� life always is. The story starts
off with Stanley walking under a bridge and a pair of shoes hits him on
the head. Since his dad was working on an invention to recycle shoes he
started running to give them to his dad. A cop pulled him over and
saw they were Clyde Livingston�s shoes, a famous baseball
player. Stanley was arrested on the spot. He was sent to Camp Green
Lake, a dry wasteland in the middle of nowhere for a year and a half. Will
Stanley make new friends? Will Stanley�s dad
ever fix his invention? What will Stanley do at this camp? Will Stanley
ever get out of the dry wasteland called Camp Green Lake? Read Holes
if you whant to find out What happens to Stanley. (Ethan,
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