Chapter Book 14 --- Holes

Title: Holes
Author: Louis Sachar
Illustrator:N/A
Genre: Fiction
Subgenre: Chapter Book
Characters: Stanley, Armpit, Zero, The Warden, Zig Zag, Mr. Sir, Elya, X-Ray
Themes: Hard work, Truthfulness, Friendship
Awards: 1999 Newberry Medal
Publishing Date: 1998
Publishing Company: Farrar, Stratus, and Giroux
Summary: The book is about a boy named Stanley and how he is wrongly accused of stealing a pair of shoes because of a family curse. Stanley is convicted and sent to a juvenile detention center known as Green Lake. There is actually no lake there and Stanley is made to dig big deep holes out in the hot weather with horrible conditions. Stanley makes many new friend s there that help him to uncover what has really happened with his family and how he can escape the curse and punishment, but will this work out in Stanley's favor? I would use this book as a class read and then once we have finished reading the book a s a class the class will get into groups and perform book talks and then present what they learned and got out of the book to the class.