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Sorry, didn't see the post until today, but oh MY I love this book. I led a book discussion on it with a group of seventh graders back when it first won the Newbery Award in 1999. There's something magical about this book. I don't know what it is, but on more than one occasion, kids have come to me in the library saying, "I hate to read, but I loved Holes." Louis Sachar's other works are great, too, like the Wayside School books, but no one, I think, ever expected him to turn out a work so serious, and so incredibly appealing.
Sachar wrote the screenplay for the movie, too, which is the only reason I went to go see it. It does an excellent job of following the book, though of course there's just no way to capture all of the book's subtleties onscreen. Did you all see that he's in the movie? He's one of the citizens talking to Sam, with the onions? Love that.
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