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Pam Munoz Ryan
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One evening, everything Naomi has known with Gram and her little brother begins to unravel. Naomi's mother wants to kidnap her. Gram is willing to go to the end of the earth to save Naomi, but will that be enough? A quiet life in Lemon Tree, California, becomes a runaway journey to find an estranged father in exotic Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,525
Heather and Picket are extraordinary rabbits with ordinary lives until calamitous events overtake them, spilling them into a cauldron of misadventures. They discover that their own story is bound up in the tumult threatening to overwhelm the wider world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not Just for The Elementary Age Group
- By Chelle on 08-27-15
By: S. D. Smith
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Holes
- By: Louis Sachar
- Narrated by: Kerry Beyer, Louis Sachar
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,596
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,513
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 3,533
Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Wonderful and Enduring Story
- By David L. Wroughton on 04-28-04
By: Louis Sachar
great story
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Love this book
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Best Book Ever
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Feel good kind of book
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Captivating Story, Narrated Wonderfully
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Good Neat Book
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My class LOVES this book!
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Another gem from Pam Munoz Ryan
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I loved it!!!!!
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This book is awesome!!!
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