because they fall down a hole
the name of the main character in the book holes is Stanley Yelenats.
If you talking about the judge from the book Holes, by Louis Sachar, the judge's name is never mentioned throughout the whole book.
In the book Holes, Sam the onion man's donkey's name was Mary Lou.
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In Holes, Stanley Yelnats is the character with a palindromic name. (It is spelled the same when read either forward or backward.)
In the book holes, Stanley goes to camp green lake
squid's real name was Alan.
The third book in the series is called Small Steps.
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