Study Guide

Holes Characters

By Louis Sachar

Stanley is the downtrodden kid who gets kicked around by just about everyone and everything. He...

According to most of the characters in the book, Zero is a big fat zero. Okay, maybe that's...

We get the shivers just thinking about the Warden. This scary lady is a descendent of Trout and...

X-Ray is the leader of the pack in D Tent. He's the smallest boy in the group (other than Zero),...

Mr. Pendanski is a bit of a puzzle. Unlike Mr. Sir, who is totally comfortable pushing the boys...

Sweet Miss Katherine, the schoolteacher in the nineteenth-century town of Green Lake. She's...

Aw, Sam. We just love this guy. We also love his trademark phrase: "I can fix that." (Much better...

What a name, right? Elya Yelnats is Stanley's...

Rude, crude, and socially unacceptable, Mr. Sir is a pretty straightforward character. He...

This guy is your stereotypical bully. While he doesn't actually appear in the book except in...