I'm Diggin' this Treasure!
Title: Holes Author: Louis Sachar Copyright: 1998 Publisher: Dell Yearling Guided Reading Level: W Genre: Fiction This book has won: The John Newbery Medal Summary: Imagine being arrested for a crime you did not commit! This amazing Newbery Award novel written Louis Sachar encompasses the life of Stanley Yelnats - a young boy wrongly accused of stealing a pair of shoes to be donated to a children's orphanage. Stanley ends up having to go to Camp Green Lake - a camp for "bad boys" - as his punishment. Poor Stanley knew this was coming, because his family was cursed generations before he was born because his Great Grandfather stole a pig. At Camp Green Lake, Stanley and his newfound peers are obligated to dig holes to "build character". Stanley and his friends end up finding some treasures in the holes, and each treasure holds a story - which builds up to an enticingly compelling story! The novel is divided up into three sections, and...