Holes_by_Louis_Sachar1

"Good," said the Warden. She turned to Stanley. "You know why you're digging holes? Because it's good for you. It teaches you a ...

no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. But mostly he was angry at himself. He knew he never should have let ...

He tried to convince himself it wasn't impossible. There had been a storm just a few days ago. Maybe Big Thumb was actually some ...

Twitch had been arrested for stealing a car. He claimed he could break into a car, disconnect the alarm, and hot-wire the engine ...

He took another deep breath. Think about this, he told himself, but there wasn't time to think. He flung open the door to the tr ...

return. Then he'd have to make a deal with the Warden, tell her where he found Kate Barlow's lipstick tube, and beg for mercy. H ...

There wasn't any water. It was a mirage caused by the shimmering waves of heat rising off the dry ground. He kept walking. He st ...

35 Zero's face looked like a jack-o'-lantern that had been left out too many days past Halloween—half rotten, with sunken eyes a ...

Stanley held it in his hand and stared at it a moment. He was afraid of the broken glass. He was also afraid of the sploosh. It ...

Stanley watched helplessly. He wondered if it was the sploosh. He looked back toward Camp Green Lake. At least he thought it was ...

He looked at Big Thumb. It didn't seem any closer than when they first started out. Zero took a deep breath and managed to sit u ...

They quit spelling words when it hurt too much to talk. Stanley's throat was dry. He was weak and exhausted, yet as bad as he fe ...

Zero stayed with him, somehow. His frail body trembled terribly as he climbed the stone wall. Some of the ledges were wide enoug ...

37 "We're almost there," said Stanley. He could see the base of the mountain. Now that they really were almost there, it scared ...

A wide clown-like smile spread across Zero's face. He flashed the thumbs-up sign, then fell. He didn't get up. Stanley bent over ...

Using both hands, he dug a hole in the soggy soil. It was too dark to see, but he thought he could feel a tiny pool of water at ...

Stanley thought about going back down the mountain to look for the shovel, so he could make the water hole deeper. Maybe that wo ...

"If only, if only." 40 When Stanley found the onion the night before, he didn't question how it had come to be there. He ate it ...

"It made my husband and me sick as well," said Mrs. Tennyson, "but it nearly killed Becca, what with her being so young. Sam sav ...

Before starting back up, he took one last look around in all directions. He saw a large indentation in the weeds a little farthe ...