Lake. The lake has been dried up for over a hundred years and used to be the largest lake in Texas. As punishment, the boys must each dig a hole a day, five feet deep and five feet across. There is only one rule at the camp and that is if you don’t bother the snakes and scorpions, then they won’t bother you. The worst thing is to be bitten by a yellow spotted lizard because you will die a slow painful death.

At Camp Green Lake it is believed that if you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy. Ms. Walker, who is the owner of the lake, claims that this pointless labor builds character, but she is really using the boys to dig for loot buried by the Wild We

I was really curious after reading the opening chapter of the book because I wanted to know what was going to happen next. After finishing the book I felt happy for Stanley and Hector because they finally got to leave the camp and that in a couple of weeks the camp would be shut down. The book made me think a lot about how some people in the world today treat others differently just because of the color of their skin. The author was trying to say that life isn’t easy and that you should never give up. I thought the title, holes, fits the book really well because the whole story is mainly about boys digging holes. I really liked the ending of the book because it had a very happy ending to it and that Stanley finds a good friend, treasure, and learns to like himself. I think what might happen next is that Stanley and his family will become rich and live a wonderful life. Also that Hector will finally have a family that he had ever wished for. I thought that the most important quote in the book was that living happily is the best r

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