Publication Date: August 20, 1998
Reading Level: Lexile Measure 660L, Scholastic Guided Reading Level V
Interest Level: Grades 6 - 8
Major Awards: 1999 Newbery Winner
Number of Pages: 233 pages
Approximate Word Count: 71,065 words -- The average reader will spend 4 hours and 44 minutes reading Holes at 250 words per minute.
Audible Book Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
Book Themes: Fate, Choices, Justice, Transformation, Family, Man and the Natural World
Genre: Adventure
Setting: Camp Green Lake, 1800's and Present Day; Nineteenth-Century Latvia
Important Quote:
If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs,
"The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies."
While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely,
Crying to the moo-oo-oon,
"If only, If only.
First Line: There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
Point of View: Primarily Third Person (Limited Omniscient), Some Third Person (Omniscient), A Little Second Person
