Hole after hole: What’s at the bottom of all this?

“Holes”

By Louis Sachar

Stanley Yelnats is arrested and sent to Camp Green Lake. Every day the boys at the camp have to dig holes 5 feet wide and 5 feet deep in the dried-up lake. The warden in charge of Camp Green Lake is looking for something. What could it be? Read the book to find out.

Annela, 8

Camino Grove Elementary, Arcadia

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“James and the Giant Peach”

By Roald Dahl

James Henry Trotter’s parents die and he is sent to live with his mean Aunt Sponge and Aunt Spiker. He meets a man who gives him a bag of magical crystals. James falls and all the crystals go under the soil by a peach tree. A gigantic peach starts growing. James finds a hole in the peach. He goes inside and meets a spider, a worm and more. If you want to know what happens next, read the book.

Jessica, 11

Foster Elementary, Lakewood

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