Ranked #1 in 5th Grade, Ranked #3 in 10-Year-Old — see more rankings.
Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment—and redemption.
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten- pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going... more
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten- pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going... more
Rankings by Category
Holes (Holes, #1) is ranked in the following categories:
- #7 in 11-Year-Old
- #43 in 12-Year-Old
- #86 in 13-Year-Old
- #72 in 14-Year-Old
- #38 in 3rd Grade
- #9 in 4th Grade
- #24 in 6th Grade
- #44 in 7th Grade
- #30 in 8-Year-Old
- #98 in 8th Grade
- #11 in 9-Year-Old
- #74 in 9th Grade
- #76 in Adaptation
- #74 in Adventure
- #17 in Award-Winning
- #4 in Boy
- #24 in Chapter
- #26 in Childhood
- #55 in Children's Boat
- #20 in Children's Chapter
- #50 in Children’s
- #43 in Clean
- #66 in Coming Of Age
- #86 in Courage
- #67 in Easy
- #10 in Elementary
- #30 in English
- #30 in Friendship
- #97 in Fun
- #80 in Graduate School
- #41 in Growing Up
- #92 in Hope
- #17 in Karma
- #27 in Learning English
- #13 in Middle School
- #56 in Morals
- #74 in Movie
- #67 in Movies
- #22 in Nostalgia
- #99 in Old
- #40 in Older Children
- #41 in Prison
- #42 in Read Aloud
- #99 in Real Life
- #14 in Realistic Fiction
- #68 in Redemption
- #67 in Survival
- #73 in Suspenseful
- #25 in Teen Boys
- #95 in Teen Fiction
- #40 in Teen Girls
- #28 in Teen Mystery
- #96 in Theater
- #27 in Tween
- #62 in Used
- #82 in Victoria
- #86 in Young Adult
- #53 in Young Adult Fiction
- #35 in Young Reader
- #40 in Young Teen
- #24 in Youth