Stanley grew to appreciate Zero's ___, secretly hoping that the Warden would recognize it, too.

The Warden's deep scratches along Mr. Sir's cheek not only swelled to the size of a grapefruit but also appeared as a(n) ___ of a scar.

Zero's admittance of his name being Hector Zeroni creates ___ within the plot.

Trout Walker came back to haunt (and try to threaten) Kate Barlow with death, after she refused to give him and his wife (her former student named Linda ___-now-Walker), the location of her loot.

With it's sharp black teeth, the yellow-spotted lizard bit into Kate Barlow's leg, but despite that, she died ___.

Stanley began second-guessing himself, after a loud clap of thunder and lightning lit up the mountain peak above the barren land; initially, he thought he had seen "a giant ___, with the ___ sticking straight out".

Stanley couldn't shake the connection he made between his great-grandfather's comment of survival and the outline of the mountains in the storm... Could it possibly be ___'s ___?

___ continued to antagonize Stanley about Zero digging his holes for him—each at different times—regardless of Stanley's exchanged agreement of helping to teach Zero how to read.

ZigZag's constant teasing—or maybe it was the fact that he couldn't really celebrate his birthday—led to a ___ among the boys, causing Mr. Pendanski to fire his pistol.

___ got shovel-smacked across the face after he religiously demeaned Zero for only being good for digging holes, repeating that he's too stupid to learn anything, despite taking the initiative to learn the alphabet, how to spell by syllables, and how to sound out words.

After being questioned about whether he knew where Zero was, Stanley overhears the Warden, Mr. Sir, and Mr. Pendanski discussing how they plan to ___ Zero from their files—especially easy because he has no family.

While Twitch may have replaced Zero's cot, it still doesn't prevent Stanley from wondering, "___...?"

After he deliberately crashes ___ into a hole, Stanley runs away from Camp Green Lake and toward's God's thumb, hoping to find Zero.

The holes went on forever; within some were families of yellow-spotted lizards ___ below.

Mary Lou, Sam's boat, was where Stanley found Zero surviving off of "___", which was decades-old, preserved jars of Kate's angelic peaches.

Stanley could tell that Zero was near-death when he'd drop to the ground in a fetal position, ___ in pain.

The primary antagonists working against the boys at Camp Green Lake include:

The main protagonists of HOLES include:

Disney's version of HOLES is synonymous with the novel written by Louis Sachar.