Our family recently watched the DVD based on the book Holes by Louis Sachar. Unfortunately, the movie left a lot of holes for us to fill in because it was so scratched up it kept freezing and we had to skip parts.
So to fill in the holes, I checked the book out at the library and read it. It was a great story. The movie, as far as what we were able to see of it, was fairly close to the book. There were a few areas that the movie deviated from the book, but not anything too big.
It's a great story of a friendship that develops between two boys who are stuck at a camp for delinquent boys. Stanley was there because of a crime he did not commit. As it turns out, Zero was there because he stole a pair of tennis shoes, but he also was the boy who committed the crime that Stanley was accused of.
There are a lot of puzzles and clues interwoven in the story that the reader begins to put together as the story progresses. It's a fun, easy story to read. But the friendship that develops between Zero and Stanley is heart warming. Stanley takes the rap several times for things the other boys should have been punished for. Everything seems to be against him, but by the end of the story, all things work out well for both him and Zero.
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