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''If you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy.'' Such is the reigning philosophy at Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention facility where there is no lake, and there are no happy campers. In place of what used to be ''the largest lake in Texas'' is now a dry, flat, sunburned wasteland, pocked with countless identical holes dug by boys improving their character. Stanley Yelnats, of palindromic name and ill-fated pedigree, has landed at Camp Green Lake because it seemed a better option than jail. No matter that his conviction was all a case of mistaken identity, the Yelnats family has become accustomed to a long history of bad luck, thanks to their ''no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather!'' Despite his innocence, Stanley is quickly enmeshed in the Camp Green Lake routine: rising before dawn to dig a hole five feet deep and five feet in diameter; learning how to get along with the Lord of the Flies-styled pack of boys in Group D; and fearing the warden, who paints her fingernails with rattlesnake venom. But when Stanley realizes that the boys may not just be digging to build character--that in fact the war

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Author
Sachar, Louis
Publisher
Yearling
Published
2011
Language
EN
ISBN
9780440414803
Category
work of fiction
Subjects
Fiction, Adventure, Children'S

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