Comparison
Holes vs New Kid
How Holes by Louis Sachar and New Kid by Jerry Craft compare on reading level, grade placement, curriculum overlap, and shared themes — derived from primary-source citations on each book’s ReadingList page.
Holes
Louis Sachar
- Lexile
- 660L
- Grades
- 4–7
- Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 233
- Genre
- Middle Grade Fiction
New Kid
Jerry Craft
- Grades
- 4–8
- Published
- 2019
- Pages
- 256
- Genre
- Middle Grade Graphic Novel
At a glance
- Grade-range overlap
- Grades 4–7
- Year-of-publication gap
- 21 years (1998 vs 2019)
- Page-count gap
- 23 pages (233 vs 256)
- Shared curricula
- 69 of 151
- Shared themes
- 1 of 10
Curriculum overlap
Both books appear in 69 shared curriculum frameworks:
Themes
Shared
friendship
Only Holes
fate vs choice · justice · family legacy · racial history
Only New Kid
race and identity · code-switching · middle school adjustment · graphic narrative · private vs public school
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Holes
Louis Sachar
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New Kid
Jerry Craft
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