Holes

Chapter 31 Stanley angrily dug his shovel into the dirt. He was angry at everyone—Mr. Pendanski, the Warden, Zigzag, X-Ray, and ...

scratch him up as well. X-Ray would be out to get him for the next sixteen months. He dug his shovel into the dirt. By the next ...

Chapter 27 Stanley dug his shovel into the ground. His hole was about three and a half feet deep in the center. He grunted as he ...

“You sure he has no family?” the Warden asked Mr. Pendanski. “He’s a ward of the state,” Mr. Pendanski told her. “He was living ...

teacher, although Zero was a quick learner. Sometimes, in fact, Stanley hoped the Warden was watching them, with her secret came ...

Chapter 32 Two days later a new kid was assigned to Group D. His name was Brian, but X-Ray called him Twitch because he was alwa ...

“Capital Z – e – r – o.” Zero wrote the letters as Stanley said them. “Zero,” he said, looking at his piece of paper. His smile ...

“This isn’t a Girl Scout camp.” The water truck came shortly after sunrise. Stanley got in line behind Magnet, ahead of Twitch. ...

Chapter 28 After twenty years, Kate Barlow returned to Green Lake. It was a place where nobody would ever find her—a ghost town ...

pile of dirt. Suddenly Stanley was slammed forward, then instantly backward as an airbag exploded in his face. He fell out of th ...

“Oh, Linda, I’m so sorry,” said Kate. Trout jabbed her throat with the rifle. “Where’s the loot?” “There is no loot,” said Kate. ...

Chapter 33 He slowed to a walk. As far as he could tell, nobody was chasing him. He could hear voices coming from back by the tr ...

“We’re being easy on you today,” said Trout. “It’s just going to keep getting worse and worse for you until you take us to it.” ...

actually see the holes. He saw the mounds of dirt that surrounded them. He stepped over the mounds and looked into the first hol ...

Part 2 The Last Hole ...

Chapter 34 The sun was almost directly overhead. He figured he could walk for no more than another hour, maybe two, before he ha ...

Chapter 29 There was a change in the weather. For the worse. The air became unbearably humid. Stanley was drenched in sweat. Bea ...

Thumb. Or maybe just turn around. There was no point in heading toward Big Thumb, he decided. He would never make it. For all he ...

had robbed him and left him stranded in the desert. No one ever knew what he meant by that. He was delirious when he said it. “B ...

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