Question: how many copies of holes have been sold

title: Holes (novel)
text: Katherine Barlow ( Kissin ' Kate Barlow ) : Katherine Barlow is a sweet and intelligent woman who teaches in a one - room school house on Green Lake one hundred and ten years before it becomes Camp Green Lake . She falls in love with Sam , the man who sells onions in the town . Although the rest of the white people in the town are racist and enforce rules that prohibit black people from going to school , Kate , who is white , does not care about the color of a person 's skin and she loves Sam for the person that he is . When Kate and Sam kiss , the townsfolk grow angry and kill Sam . Kate is devastated by Sam 's death and becomes Kissin ' Kate Barlow , one of the most feared outlaws in the West . Kissin ' Kate always leaves her mark by kissing someone when she finishes killing them ; if she had only robbed them , she would leave them in the hot desert letting the yellow - spotted lizards bite the victim with their venomous teeth and kill them . She is the outlaw responsible for robbing Stanley Yelnats I ( Stanley 's ancestor ) . Kate dies when a yellow spotted lizard bites her foot . The lipstick tube that Stanley finds during his second week at Camp Green was owned by Kate Barlow .