Holes is an intriguing novel about a teenage boy named Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to a correctional camp in the Texas desert after falsely being accused of being a thief. He is sent to a desert area in Texas called Camp Green Lake, where he and the other juvenile delinquents are forced to dig holes as punishment. He makes a friend who is nicknamed Zero, but at one point Zero runs away because of how much he truly hated camp life. Stanley follows him and they climb a big mountain. On the mountain, they live on onions that they found in jars hidden under an abandoned boat, but later decide to return to camp. One day they dig up a big suitcase with the name Stanley Yelnats on it. Although they don't know it, this is Stanley's great-grandfather's suitcase, which had been stolen from him, and it had a lot of valuables in it. It turns out that the warden of the camp had been looking for the suitcase the whole time, and attempts to take it. Will the warden succeed, or will Stanley Yelnats get to keep what is rightfully his, and be pardoned from the crime he never committed?
I thought that this book had an interesting plot. Louis Sachar adds a lot of good background for us to understand where the story is heading. I loved the suspense when we start to find out near the middle of the book what had actually happened in Green Lake, and how it was connected to what Stanley and Zero were going through now. Because of all this, I give this book a five out of five.