Stanley Yelnats's life is cursed all thanks to his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather. When he gets arrested for a crime he didn't commit, he finds himself at Camp Green Lake. Under the eye of the ominous warden, the boys are required to spend each day digging holes in the dry lake bed, looking for treasure. Instead, Stanley instead up digging up the truth of his past in this silly children's story full of dark humor.

I think Holes to be better suited to older children. When I read it aloud to my kids, my older two enjoyed it, but my six-year-old quickly lost interest.