BY: JT MorganGenre: Realistic Fiction

Louis SacharLouis Sacher is a very good author who has written many famous books. One of his most famous is Holes. He has written twenty-one children's books and has won awards with many of them. Holes won the “Prestigious National Book Award”, and the “Newberry Medal”.

Camp Green Lake(The Setting)

Camp Green Lake was once a very large, shady, cool lake, but a serious drought has dried it up and caused it to become a desert.

Camp Green Lake was full of deadly yellow spotted lizards. They could kill you almost instantly.

Camp Green Lake was the setting of this story. It’s hot, dry, and miserable. Everyday the boys had to dig a hole five feet wide and five feet deep.

Characters

Stanley Yelnats IV is a poor overweight teenager. He was never very confident

at school, because he never had a reason to be. He was once insulted by a

mean teacher for not knowing a problem. He is always picked because of his weight. He always stands his ground and doesn’t fight back. He was named

caveman when he got to camp. He hates digging holes but he is always

hopeful something good will happen.

Mr. Sir was the guard at Camp Green Lake. Other than the

Warden, he was the boss. He always had a cowboy hat and sunglasses with him. He was

always eating sunflower seeds to replace smoking. Mr. Sir is

really mean and nobody wanted to mess with him.