Holes

Chapter 12 Again, Stanley was the last one to finish digging. It was late afternoon when he dragged himself back to the compound ...

animals?” “Veterinarian,” said Armpit. “That’s right,” said Mr. Pendanski. “He could work in a zoo,” said Zigzag. “He belongs in ...

you are here. You’re responsible for yourself. You messed up your life, and it’s up to you to fix it. No one else is going to do ...

Chapter 13 All too soon Stanley was back out on the lake, sticking his shovel into the dirt. X-Ray was right: the third hole was ...

felt something hard and metallic. He pulled it out. It was a gold tube, about as long and as wide as the second finger on his ri ...

and looked at the tube again. One by one, the other boys dropped their shovels and came to look. “It looks like an old shotgun s ...

Chapter 14 That night, as Stanley lay on his scratchy and smelly cot, he tried to figure out what he could have done differently ...

think I might have found something!” The boys all followed Mr. Pendanski as he walked over to X-Ray’s hole. Stanley could see th ...

stepped out of the truck, he didn’t even know the Warden was a woman. He nervously went toward her. “Mr. Pendanski and I have be ...

Chapter 15 Mr. Pendanski filled the canteens. The Warden got a pitchfork out of the back of the pickup. She poked it through X-R ...

boys’ shoulders, and sticking her pitchfork through the dirt piles. “You’re doing fine, just fine,” she told Stanley. After a wh ...

Chapter 16 As Stanley entered the Wreck Room, he could hear X-Ray’s voice from all the way across the room. “See what I’m saying ...

By lunchtime the Warden was beginning to lose her patience. She made them eat quickly, so they could get back to work. “If you c ...

It was wonderful to hear from you Your letter made me feel like one of the other moms who can afford to send their kids to summe ...

Chapter 17 For the next week and a half, the boys continued to dig in and around the area where X-Ray had supposedly found the g ...

“Hey, Mom!” Magnet called. “Caveman’s been hurt.” Stanley brought his fingers up the side of his neck. He felt his wet blood and ...

Chapter 18 The next morning Mr. Sir marched the boys to another section of the lake, and each boy dug his own hole, five feet de ...

I’ll be careful. It’s not all fun and games here, but I think I’m getting a lot out of it. It builds character. The other boys “ ...

Chapter 19 He was awakened one night by a strange noise. At first he thought it might have been some kind of animal, and it frig ...

Magnet was standing at ground level, holding a sack of seeds. He popped a handful into his mouth, chewed, and swallowed, shells ...