Stanley Yelnats “steals” a pair of famous pair shoes and gets sent to prison camp and he's forced into digging holes. Zero (Stanley's friend) runs away and stanley has to go find zero in a desert wasteland, will stanley find zero, read the book to find out.
The theme of holes is growing up because stanley is innocent because he didn't steal the shoes, he learning from digging holes. He's a youth for running from the police.
Stanley was walking home from school when a pair famous shoes hit him on the head. Stanley didn't know the shoes were famous so he took them and started to run home, the police caught