Holes

by LOUIS SACHAR | Teens | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0440414806 Global Overview for this book
Registered by crrcookie of Tecumseh, Oklahoma USA on 8/26/2009
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Journal Entry 1 by crrcookie from Tecumseh, Oklahoma USA on Wednesday, August 26, 2009
On August 2nd I took a spur of the moment trip to the Book Thing of Baltimore. I brought home many wonderful books that I can register and share through BookCrossing!


Journal Entry 2 by crrcookie from Tecumseh, Oklahoma USA on Tuesday, December 29, 2009
This book is a Newbery Medal Winner for the year 1999.

The Newbery Medal was named for eighteenth-century British bookseller John Newbery. It is awarded annually by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association, to the author of the most distinguished contribution to American literature for children.


Journal Entry 3 by crrcookie from Tecumseh, Oklahoma USA on Tuesday, December 29, 2009
This book is a Sequoyah Book Award Winning Book for Children and Young Adults for the year 2001.

Sponsored by the Oklahoma Library Association (OLA), the annual Sequoyah Book Award is a student’s choice award presented since 1959. The program added a Young Adult literature award in 1987. Books chosen for the annual Sequoyah masterlist are selected by two committees of OLA members. Each member of the committee reads over 100 books before recommending titles for the masterlists.
During the school year, young Oklahomans from grades three through junior high are encouraged to read the titles from the masterlist. Students must read or listen to three books in order to cast a vote. The winning book is announced in February and the award is presented during the annual Oklahoma Library Association’s spring conference.
With this award, Oklahoma honors the Native American leader, Sequoyah, for his unique achievement in creating the Cherokee syllabary. In so doing, he created a way to preserve his people’s language and culture.


Journal Entry 4 by crrcookie at Washington, District of Columbia USA on Saturday, June 19, 2010
From the back cover:

Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day, digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.

It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment - and redemption.

Journal Entry 5 by crrcookie at Washington, District of Columbia USA on Saturday, June 19, 2010
I like this book just fine but I don't really see what all the fuss is. It has won several awards and I don't really see why. I think it might have something to do with appeal to the children and not necessarily the appeal to adults. I think I probably would have liked it 20 years ago but now it just seems silly.

There are many things in it that are full of imagination and lots of interesting parts but I don't think that it meshed together well as a full story.

Journal Entry 6 by crrcookie at Washington, District of Columbia USA on Saturday, June 19, 2010
This book was read for the 2010 Pages Read Challenge from the release challenge forum.

My goal is 40,000 pages and this book has a total of 233 pages that I am counting for this challenge. I have a total of 48 books read this year with 10,756 pages read for the year and that is 28.890% of my 2010 goal.

Journal Entry 7 by crrcookie at Washington, District of Columbia USA on Saturday, June 19, 2010
This book was read for the 2010 Reduce My Mount TBR Challenge from the release challenge forum. For this challenge the book must have been acquired before the start of 2010. My goal is to get 100 of these books off of my shelves and into the world by reading them!

This is book #30 from my To Be Read Pile that I have read this year.

Released 12 yrs ago (4/17/2011 UTC) at Day Of The Book (Street Festival) On Howard Avenue in Kensington, Maryland USA

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