Holes by: Louis Sacher (5)

Holes is about a boy named Stanly, his father is trying to fond a cure for smelly sneakers. One day Stanly is walking home from school when some sneakers 'fall from the sky.' Stanly picks them up and runs becausehe think they might be the answer to his dad's smelly shoe problem. Turns out the shoes were the shoes recently stolen from the homeless shelter, which were Clyde Livingstone's (a baseball player) shoes he donated.

So, Stanley has the choice, go to jail or Camp Green Lake, a camp for bad boys. At camp Green Lake the boys dig Holes to 'build character', and that's where Stanley ends up. After awhile at Camp he be-friends a boy named Zero. (his real name is Hector, but everybody at Camp has a nickname) Together, Stanley and Zero find out the real reason the Warden wants them to dig.

Stanley and Zero run away from camp, and take refuge under god's thumb, they eat unions and drink water they dug up. When they find what the Warden is looking for, she wants them dead. Luckily for the warden a red spotted lizard bites the two, but, they survive because they have unions in there system and can't die with a bite.

In the end all the boys get to go home and Camp Green Lake is turned into a Girl Scout Camp! Now you might be wondering how are the boys digging on a lake well, it isn't a lake anymore but used to be, and there is a hole other story behind that...

This book is really interesting and i think even an adult would enjoy it!