✦GODLevel 5 · Sophisticated ReadersUS Grade 6Lexile 660LAR (ATOS) 4.6 · First published 1998
📖 Read the book first: you need a copy of Holes to use this workbook. Recommended edition: Yearling paperback, ISBN 9780440414803. Another edition works if you can follow the chapters. All recommended editions →
Subject Personalities
The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.
PRIMARY LENS
🏜️ Deserts, Water and Weather
Droughts and dry lakebeds, fossils, desert animals, mirages, springs and rain — the real science of a lake that disappeared.
SUPPORTING
⚖️ Fairness and the Law
What a judge does, lawyers and the Attorney General, unfair laws of the past, and why the truth matters.
SUPPORTING
📖 How a Story Is Built
Two timelines braided together, foreshadowing, irony, and a resolution where every thread from the past comes home.
