Category: Newbery Books

This book unit (Holes by Lousi Sachar) provides reading comprehension questions, vocabulary work and discussion questions in which students will be tasked with writing their answers.

There are 22 pages and split into groups of chapters for ease of assignment/use:

• Chapters 1-5
• Chapters 6-10
• Chapters 11-16
• Chapters 17-22
• Chapters 23-28
• Chapters 29-33
• Chapters 34-39
• Chapters 40-45
• Chapters 46-50

Also included: Extended activity ideas and answer keys

About the book:
Holes is a 1998 novel written by Louis Sachar. It won the 1998 U.S. National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and the 1999 Newbery Medal for the year’s “most distinguished contribution to American literature for children”. The story centers on an unlucky teenage boy named Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile corrections facility in a desert in Texas, after being falsely accused of theft. The plot explores the history of the area and how the actions of several characters in the past have affected Stanley’s life in the present. These interconnecting stories touch on themes such as racism, homelessness, illiteracy, and arranged marriage.