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| About Holes | ||||||
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| Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great grea-grandfather and his since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day, digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvment going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment-and redemption. For those who have not read the book, I suggest you do, then you'll see why Louis Sachar got a "John Newberry Medal." |
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