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Some of the Year 6 children have been attending Book Club with Ms Barnes every other week. The children were asked to read "Holes" by Louis Sacher.
Here are some of the book reviews from the children that have completed the book....
More reviews to follow so watch this space!!!
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Holes is an excellent book just ask anyone who has read it. I was up all night reading it on the day that I got it because it is one of the best books I have ever read (and trust me I’ve read a lot of books).
Furthermore it is a thrilling tale of friendship and bravery. Louise Sachar uses connectives brilliantly and displays emotion like no other author can. like my friend Fergal says it gives you a whole seat but you only need the edge.
I would recommend this book to
everyone because it is suitable
to everyone.
This concludes my review for holes.
Zain Ejaz.
Holes is an amazing book!
It gives you the whole seat but you only need the edge!
I can’t tell you too much because I might ruin it for you but I can tell you this…
Stanley (the main character) is sent to Camp Green Lake. A child labour camp to dig for something. But the boys who work there don’t know that it’s a labour camp.
The people who own the camp say… “If a bad boy digs long enough, he turns into a good boy.”
Stanley is the main but not the best character for me.
The best character for me is Zero supposedly the dumbest in the group… but is he?
I would recommend this book to children 10+.
Fergal
You really get three stories for the price of one with this book, but the main theme is how young Stanley Yelnats IV comes to redeem the curse which was visited upon his great-great-grandfather and all the Yelnats family, through the generations, by Madame Zeroni.
Here is the first bit of this story. A few generations ago, in Latvia, the young Elya Yelnats fell in love with the beautiful but stupid Myra Menke. He sought the help of ancient Madame Zeroni to win Myra's hand in marriage.
In return for Madame Zeroni's help, Elya promised to carry her up the mountain to drink from a special spring one more time before she died.
Unfortunately for Elya, the courtship went wrong and in a fit of despair he boarded a ship bound for America to begin a new life before he had fulfilled his promise to Madame Zeroni.
Things never went right for long after that. Settled in America, Elya had one son who succeeded in making a fortune, but he lost it all when he was robbed by Kissin' Kate Barlow, the famous outlaw.
So, when we meet Stanley Yelnats IV, he is on his way to a boys' juvenile detention centre for a crime which he did not commit. The family curse has struck again!
The second thread of this story takes place at Camp Green Lake. What can Stanley make of life in a juvenile detention centre? Stanley is rather a gentle type himself, overweight, reconciled to
failure and being bullied at school.
This book also teaches people about
racism, friendship and trust.
Shahir – Year 6
Zain reflects on the story...
Fergal really dug this story...
I wasn’t too keen on reading this book, but it is actually really good and is one of my favourites.
It explains racism in a great way. Leouis Sachar describes the characters well. I could tell by the way the book was written that he had put a lot of thought and effort into the story. I would recommend it to people of all ages.
Stanley is an average American boy whose life turns around when he is sent to a camp in the middle of nowhere.
He digs holes everyday and suffers through hardship. The camp leader’s are all very cruel and should be reported for child labour. They insist it’s to build character but Stanley doesn’t think that’s the entire reason.
Can he dig up the truth?
To be honest I am one of those people who judge a book by it’s cover. When I got given this book I thought; oh man! I just know this is going to be really lame.
At the beginning I didn’t really concentrate because I thought it was going to be rubbish. But as I read further, I really started to get into it. Holes is a great book. It is a fantastic book about love and racism.
I love this book and I think everybody should give it a try. I guarantee that at least 80% of the people that read it are going to love it.
Madihah Manik
Holes is a book about a boy named Stanley Yelnuts who is accused of stealing a pair of trainers from a famous baseball player named Clyde Livingston.
The real meaning of the book is racism. It is a book that helps children to the issue of racism very well.
In the actual book there are three stories going on at once. One of the stories is about a curse the other is about a famous outlaw Kate Barlow and the last one was about Stanley Yelnuts.
I found the book very interesting. It describes racism in the 1940-1960 very well and lets you understand how the black people felt during that time living amongst racist people.
It is a book that helps children understand the issue of racism. I found the book a good read and very enjoyable.
I would recommend it for children to read however you may get mixed up because there are three stories going on at once.
I would recommend it for children between the ages of 9 to 12.This book is a very important book for children to understand the real meaning behind it.
The author Louis Sacher has really thought about how to write this book for children with out them getting board easily.
Rehab Ali
Holes is a very good book. It really tells a tale of friendship and why racism is wrong. Louis Sachar has written a book that captures your heart.
In this book there are many things that give you a message without you realising it. For example, there is a point in the book when Stanley gives his opinion and you find yourself agreeing with him. This book also teaches children without them knowing it. If a child, like me, reads this book then they are being taught about the issues in the world.
This story begins with Stanley Yelnats on his way to Camp Green Lake. Camp Green Lake is a camp in the middle of nowhere which boys are sent to if they break the law. Stanley gets sent to it being wrongly arrested of a crime he didn’t commit.
When he arrives he realises how hard life can be. He has to dig a hole 5-foot wide, 5-foot deep everyday. It really makes you realise how lucky you are to not have this kind of labour enforced on you.
When you read further on into the story you find that Caveman (Stanley’s nickname) finds friendship with Zero. A boy who everyone believes to be stupid. He has no knowledge of writing but Stanley teaches him how to.
Zero gets so sick of Camp Green Lake that he runs away. Stanley decides to go after him and they manage to survive because they found refuge on a mountain.
They return to the camp after much consideration and find out that Stanley has a lawyer. His father managed to invent a spray that gets rid of foot odour. Stanley’s name gets cleared and he is free to go while making just less than one million pounds.
Because the camp deleted Zeros files he got to come along to. That was the end of Stanley’s story.
During this tale there is another story too. It’s the story of Katherine Barlow and Sam the onion man. Sam is black and Katherine is white. This is relevant because it was set in the racist times. Katherine Barlow loves Sam but can’t let him know it so she devises a plan to see him more often.
She teaches lessons at a poorly made schoolhouse so she gets him to fix it by making excuses like; the roof leaks, the windows don’t open etc. In the end they kiss and someone sees so they shoot Sam for his crimes. Then Katherine becomes Kissin Kate Barlow, ready to avenge him.
I think this book is very good and I recommend it to everyone. I think a good age to start reading this book is ten years old. You are still young enough to learn its many messages but old enough to understand it.
If you love a heart warmer with a strange but good ending then this is the book for you. Read this book!
Laura
Holes is a FANTASTIC book.
At first I thought there wasn’t any point in reading the book as I had already watched the film. Turned out I was wrong as I preferred the book!
The basic story line is this: Stanley’s father is trying to invent a use for sneakers. Shoes fell as he was passing underneath a freeway overpass.
As his family believed they had a curse they thought they had bad luck. Stanley thought the shoes were for his father so he ran home. A police car pulled up next to him. It turned out those shoes belonged to a famous baseball player-Clyde Livingston.
Stanley was taken to court, his parents were given the choice to take Stanley to jail or to Camp Green Lake(C.G.L). As the family were poor, and Stanley was young, Stanley had to go to C.G.L.
There they dug holes for the warden who had wanted some treasure. In the end Stanley was free and if you want to find out how then read the FABULOUS book YOURSELF!
Really you should be ten or more to read this book. If you do read the book ENJOY!
Rayyana Suleiman
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Rehab found an important meaning...
Holes is one of Madihah's favourites...
Rayyana saw the film but still loved the book...
Laura learnt about issues from the book...
Shahir saw some big themes in the story...
Holes is a fascinating novel about a young boy called Stanley Yelnats.
The judge said, "You may go to jail, or you may go to Camp Green Lake."
You might be wondering why Stanley was given such a choice, actually he was more innocent than you or me.
He was accused of stealing Clyde Livingston’s shoes which he had donated to charity. Stanley came from a very poor family which is why he couldn’t have hired a lawyer to prove his innocence.
I feel sorry for Stanley because he already has enough trouble being bullied at school because of his weight. In the book Stanley’s family has a habit of blaming his great great grandfather for anything bad that happens.
Elya Yelnats (great great grandfather) is described as a no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. They describe him this way because he broke a promise and was cursed by Madame Zeroni (for all of Elya’s generation).
When Stanley arrived at camp green lake, he was very surprised because every thing wasn’t as he expected. The lake wasn’t green at all, actually it was dried up.
The camp was so unlike normal camps instead of playing they had to dig up a hole in the hot temperature every day…
If you want to know what happens, YOU MUST read the book it’s so great. I have to admit at first I wasn’t too keen on reading this book (I am the kind of person who judges a book by its cover) but when I started I couldn’t stop!
Holes is a great novel that teaches young children about racism. I would recommend this book to anyone who is older than 10 years because is they were any younger I don’t think they would understand racism.
I hope you read this book AND you ENJOY it as much as I did!
Huda Ali
Huda recommends this book...
Holes is a fascinating book. It’s about a boy called Stanley. He’s overweight and has a hard life. He is accused of stealing a baseball players shoes but he actually didn’t.
Stanley was sent to Camp Green Lake and where he met new people. Mr Sir, Mr. Pendanski, the Warden and X-ray, Zigzag, Magnet, Squid, Armpit and Zero.
At camp he finds a cylinder tube with the initials KB.
He recognises it from somewhere but doesn’t know where it’s from. He hands it in and the next morning the Warden came out with her big, black boots and cowboy hat on top of her red hair.
She makes them dig in that area for days without any success then moves on.
Later on in the book it talks about Kate Barlow, the woman who stole Stanley’s great grandfathers’ treasures and Sam. In the story Sam kissed Kate Barlow. Since he was black he got killed because 130 years ago black people weren’t allowed to be with white people.
Thus creating Kissing Kate Barlow I think that the author
Louis Sachar explains racism really well.
My favourite bits of the
book are the poems:
If only, if only the woodpecker sighs
The bark on the tree is as soft as the skies
While the wolf waits below hungry and lonely
Crying to the moo-oo-on
If only, if only
Nana Ofori-Kyereh
For Nana, the book tackles racism well...
