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A READING GUIDE TO

Holes

by Louis Sachar

Monique Vescia

Copyright ? 2003 by Scholastic Inc.

Interview ? 2003 by Louis Sachar

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Vescia, Monique.

Scholastic BookFiles: A Reading Guide to Holes

by Louis Sachar/by Monique Vescia.

p. cm.

Summary: Discusses the writing, characters, plot, and themes of

this 1999 Newbery Award�Cwinning book. Includes discussion

questions and activities. Includes bibliographical references (p. ).

1. Sachar, Louis, 1954�C . Holes��Juvenile literature.

2. Homeless persons in literature��Juvenile literature.

3. Friendship in literature��Juvenile literature.

4. Boys in literature��Juvenile literature. [1. Sachar, Louis,

1954�C . Holes. 2. American literature��History and criticism.]

I. Title: A Reading Guide to Holes by Louis Sachar. II. Title.

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Contents

About Louis Sachar

5

How Holes Came About

9

An Interview with Louis Sachar

12

Chapter Charter: Questions to Guide Your Reading

19

Plot: What��s Happening?

26

Setting/Time and Place: Where in the World Are We?

31

Themes/Layers of Meaning: Is That What It

Really Means?

Characters: Who Are These People, Anyway?

35

41

Opinion: What Have Other People Thought

About Holes?

48

Glossary

51

Louis Sachar on Writing

53

You Be the Author!

55

Activities

58

Related Reading

62

Bibliography

64

About Louis Sachar

��I want kids to think that reading can

be just as much fun and more so than

TV or video games or whatever else

they do.��

��Louis Sachar

H

oles tells the story of how a single event��a pair of

sneakers falling out of the sky��changes the course of a

person��s life. Author Louis Sachar knows a thing or two about

that: In college he signed up for a job as a teacher��s aide at an

elementary school because he thought it sounded easy. As it

turned out, the time Sachar spent working with the kids at

Hillside Elementary School in California inspired him to try

writing children��s books. Now he��s an award-winning author!

Louis Sachar (pronounced Sacker) was born in East Meadow,

New York, on March 20, 1954. Sachar��s mother stayed at home

to care for Louis and his older brother, Andy. Their father

commuted to New York City to work on the seventy-eighth floor

of the Empire State Building. Sachar��s father sold Italian shoes,

which may help explain the strange significance of footwear in

the plot of Holes.

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