Holes
Stanley Yelnats has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake. And, it doesn't take Stanley long to realize that there's more than character improvement going on at the Camp.
A wonderfully woven story!
What I enjoyed most about this book is its lovely balance of this, that and the other. No wonder it's recently been made into a Disney film. Though without having seen the film myself, I would encourage parents and children alike, to make sure to read the book first.
The book spends time exploring the history of both the characters in the story and their families. The unfolding plot meanwhile, is peppered with just the right amount of action, humor and warming life lessons on friendship and loyalty, prejudice and preconceptions.
The story itself is very satisfying as its well-woven plot points are scattered over generations of family history. Therefore, at the book's end, one is left with the same satisfaction in tapping in the final morsel of 2000 piece puzzle.
Oh... how simple it all looks at its end.
