Plot
This reason is why Stanley Yelnats is sent to Camp Green Lake in the first place.
What is being falsely accused of stealing Clyde Livingston’s sneakers?
The protagonist of Holes.
Who is Stanley Yelnats IV?
This is the required size of every hole: its depth and its diameter.
What is five feet wide and five feet deep?
This promise Elya Yelnats fails to keep causes Madame Zeroni’s curse on his family.
What is carrying Madame Zeroni up the mountain and singing to her?
Where did Stanley's great grandfather find refuge?
What is God's Thumb?
This daily task the boys at Camp Green Lake must do is said to “build character.”
What is digging a hole?
Person in charge at Camp Green Lake
Who is the Warden?
If a boy finds something “interesting” in his hole, he must do this with it.
What is give it to Mr. Sir, Mr. Pendanski, or the Warden?
Before becoming the outlaw Kissin’ Kate Barlow, Miss Katherine was known for making these, which everyone in the town loved.
What are her spiced peaches?
Kissin' Kate's cause of death.
What is a yellow spotted lizard?
This outlaw’s treasure becomes the central mystery connected to the Warden’s real reason for making the boys dig.
Who is Kissin’ Kate Barlow?
Baseball player whose shoes are stolen
At Camp Green Lake, this is the number of holes each boy must dig every day.
What is one?
This tragic event pushes Miss Katherine to turn from a kind schoolteacher into the outlaw Kissin’ Kate Barlow.
What is the murder of Sam?
Zero's great-great-great grandma.
Who is Madame Zeroni?
Stanley and Zero survive in the desert by taking refuge on this strangely named rock formation.
What is God's Thumb?
Placed a curse on Stanley's great-great grandfather. She gave him a pig so he could win the heart of Myra Menke.
Who is Madame Zeroni?
Boys at Camp Green Lake are told they can leave any time they want—as long as they can do this.
What is survive in the desert?
He owns Green Lake and wants Miss Katherine to marry him.
What does the Warden’s nail polish have in it that makes it dangerous
What is rattle snake venom?
Stanley and Zero find this object at the end of the novel, which changes their lives forever.
What is Kissin' Kate's treasure?
Man who sold onions and kissed Miss Katherine.
Who is Sam?
This is what the Warden says will happen if a boy gets bitten by a yellow-spotted lizard.
What is “you’ll die”—and nothing can save you?
This girl is the reason Elya Yelnats asks Madame Zeroni for help in the first place.
Who is Myra Menke?
What do the boys do to their hole after they finish digging?
What is spit in their hole?