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Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :

...not that I mind though. But I should have known that Louis Sachar would write a sequel, or companion novel, to Holes .

Personally, I really enjoyed Holes, and I thought the movie was a very good adaptation. So, I probably will read this sequel, titled Small Steps .

I'd just now heard of this book, for I saw it at Wal-Mart. Did anyone else see/hear about this book?

Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :

It's on my list. I've adored Louis Sachar since I was eight.

I for one, though, would like to see a movie adaptation of Wayside Stories or There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom!

Posted by SteveRogers (Member # 7130) on :

The only one I read when I was that young was Holes and I was ten...I think. When did Holes come out?

Posted by breyerchic04 (Member # 6423) on :

Before you were 10, I read it in 5th grade.

Posted by demosthenes83191 (Member # 9071) on :

I've read Holes before, and I thought is was good, but a little random. The sequal looks cool, though, and I'll probably read it.

Posted by Boon (Member # 4646) on :

Holes... random?

[ROFL]

Posted by Bella Bee (Member # 7027) on :

'There's a Boy in the Girls' Bathroom' is the whole and entire reason why I have an A-level in psychology. I loved that book.

Posted by Princess Leah (Member # 6026) on :

Bella Bee, right with you (except not with the psych degree.) But yeah. From age 7 through the present, that book never fails to get at my heart and teach me something new.

*goes to search library catalogue for new Sacher*

Posted by MandyM (Member # 8375) on :

As the team leader on a grant project at my school, I have created a whole (no pun intended) interdisciplinary unit around Holes with some of the teachers I work with. We have given several workshops at statewide and national conferences on it and the kids love it.

Included in the unit are activities about the hero archetype and creative writing about artifacts in language arts; sun exposure and food preservation labs in science; studies of famous inventors and westward expansion in Texas for history; and calculations of distance, circumference and volume in math. We even let the kids go outside and try to dig a hole on our campus to see how hard it would be.

We have eagerly anticipated this book especially since the author is from central Texas (where I am). Personally I love companion novels even better than sequels.

Posted by Tante Shvester (Member # 8202) on :

He did write a second "Holes" book, Stanley Yelnats Survival Guide.

I read it. I think he knocked it out on a slow afternoon.