Holes

“You’re not looking for anything. You’re digging to build character. It’s just if you find anything, the Warden would like to kn ...

Chapter 11 Stanley returned to his hole. It wasn’t fair. Mr. Pendanski had even said his fossil was interesting. He slammed his ...

quite a bit older than him. She was even older than Igor Barkov. The other boys of his village liked to mud wrestle. Elya prefer ...

group, since he obviously wasn’t the biggest or the toughest. In fact, except for Zero, X-Ray was the smallest. Armpit was the b ...

“On the top of the mountain there is a stream where the water runs uphill. You must carry the piglet every day to the top of the ...

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

Everyone else’s hole was a lot deeper than his. He couldn’t actually see their holes but could tell by the size of their dirt pi ...

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

changing his grip on the shovel to try to avoid the pain. Finally, he removed his cap and held it between the shaft of his shove ...

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 ...

“They both weigh the same,” said her father. “Golly,” said Myra, “I guess I choose Elya—No, Igor. No, Elya. No, Igor. Oh, I know ...

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 ...

she didn’t love him, couldn’t she see what a foul person Igor was? It was like Madame Zeroni had said. Her head was as empty as ...

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 ...

Stanley kept digging. His hole was almost up to his shoulders, although it was hard to tell exactly where ground level was becau ...

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 ...

Sarah changed the words of the pig lullaby so that they rhymed, and every night she sang it to little Stanley. “If only, if only ...

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

Chapter 8 A lot of people don’t believe in curses. A lot of people don’t believe in yellow-spotted lizards either, but if one bi ...

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 ...