What happened to the backstory of the other boys? Did we ever even learn why they were there (aside from one of them did steal a car)? Did the other boys have family? The repetition was nauseating and sent me over the mooooooooonnnnnn! Maybe I will just blame my great-great-grandfather while washing my second set of clothes? I just don’t understand the hype surrounding this book.Īt the premise of Holes, a group of boys are charged with digging 5 feet by 5 feet holes and to let someone in charge know if they find anything “interesting.” Hmm…doesn’t that sound like buried treasure? Aren’t they going to find something? Hisdaughter, Sherre, was born in 1987.īring on the tomatoes! This is going to be an unpopular review…… She was the inspiration behind the counselor in There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom. When he first met her, she was a counselor at an elementary school. Then his books started selling well enough so that he was able to quit practicing law. For the next eight years he worked part-time as a lawyer and continued to try to write children's books. His first book was published while he was in law school. He attended Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. Almost a year later, he was fired from the job. He was working at a sweater warehouse during the day and wrote at night. The next year, he wrote his first book, Sideways Stories from Wayside School.

He went to college at the University of California at Berkeley and graduated in 1976, as an economics major. When he was nine, he moved to Tustin, California. Louis was born in East Meadow, New York, in 1954. Louis Sachar (pronounced Sacker), born March 20, 1954, is an American author of children's books.

Holes the novel