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Holes By Louis Sachar

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To start with, the journey Holes has an exciting action-filled adventure. Many people may say that books are boring, but Louis Sachar is able to create another world through the use of words. Unlike other boys his age, Stanley Yelnats is quite unlucky. After taking a walk through the city, Stanley found an expensive pair of baseball cleats that “fell out of the sky.’ After the police catch Stanley with the cleats, he is sentenced to 18 months in Camp Green Lake. These sequences of events that start the novel are able to capture the readers’ attention for the entirety of the story. Following that, at this camp, the boys must dig holes in the dry earth. After Zero, one of the boys at the camp, runs away, taking no food or water with him, Stanley

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