5.2 Holes 4-Pack
This title is a student novel for the 5.2 Read-Aloud Teacher's Guide-Realistic Fiction (Complex Story Structure), Holes, one of five read-aloud units for fifth grade in the Read Side by Side Reading Program! Each student will need their own copy and will follow along as the teacher reads aloud.
The book Holes, by Louis Sachar, is one your fifth graders are going to love, due to its challenge and humor. This book provides a wonderful opportunity to practice navigating a complex story structure.
Blurb: 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 Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys’ detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day, digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.
But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment – and redemption.
Lexile Level: 660
Page Count: 240