Holes

At that moment, however, Hattie Parker stepped out of the general store. They didn’t see her, but she saw them. She pointed her ...

Chapter 20 It felt good to walk in the shade of the two oak trees. Stanley wondered if this was how a condemned man felt on his ...

Chapter 26 There were no telephones, but word spread quickly through the small town. By the end of the day, everyone in Green La ...

me, please?” She pointed to a door. Stanley looked at the door, then at the Warden, then back at the door. He slowly walked towa ...

She slapped him across the face. He laughed. “You kissed the onion picker. Why won’t you kiss me?” She tried to slap him again, ...

clutched his face with both hands. He let himself fall over, rolling off the hearth and onto the rug. The Warden spoke softly. “ ...

These are the facts: The Walker boat smashed into Sam’s boat. Sam was shot and killed in the water. Katherine Barlow was rescued ...

Chapter 21 It was a long walk back to his hole. Stanley looked out through the haze of heat and dirt at the other boys, lowering ...

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 ...

“Hey, Caveman!” called Armpit. “You’re still alive.” “What’d the Warden say?” asked X-Ray. “What’d you tell her?” asked Magnet. ...

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

Chapter 22 Stanley was the first one finished. He spat in his hole, then showered and changed into his cleaner set of clothes. I ...

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

Stanley got his box of stationery and a pen out of his crate. They sat on the ground. “Do you know the alphabet?” Stanley asked. ...

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

Stanley didn’t know what he was talking about. “Instead of twenty-six letters. There are really fifty-two.” Stanley looked at hi ...

“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. ...

He closed his eyes, and images from the Warden’s cabin floated inside his head: her red fingernails, Mr. Sir writhing on the flo ...

“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.” ...

Part 2 The Last Hole ...