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Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Published: 1997
Price: $7.99
Age Group: 10+
Taylor Dunlop
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![]() This thrilling children's novel is about a boy named Stanley Yelnats, whose family suffers from bad luck due to a curse put on there family. Stanley is sent to a juvenile detention camp, where he and others are forced to dig large holes in the ground everyday. Stanley comes to the conclusion that the warden is digging these holes for a reason and he is going to figure out what it is. Stanley's great great grandfather did not fulfill his promise of carrying Madam Zeroni up the mountain, and to sing her the song she had taught him; therefore she put a curse on his family. One hundred years before Stanley arrives to the camp, Camp Green Lake was a beautiful place where a school teacher named Katherine falls in love with a black onion seller named Sam. Because racism was a problem during this time Sam and Katherine try to escape, but while out on the lake Sam is shot and killed. After Sam was killed the rain stops there and dries up the land. While digging a hole Stanley finds a lipstick with the initials KB on it. Stanley befriends a boy named Zero at the camp, where we later find out he is the great great grandson of Madam Zeroni. Zero escapes from camp and Stanley goes after to find him. They then climb to the top of the mountain where they find Sam's onion field and survive off the onions for over a week. Stanley then realizes the treasure must be in the same hole where he found the lipstick. They return to camp that night and find the suitcase that has Stanley Yelnats engraved in it. The warden tries to take the suitcase from him, but when Stanley's lawyer shows up she declares that it is his and him and Zero are innocent and are free to leave the camp. At the end of the novel we find out that the families curse has been lifted. Publisher: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux Published: 1997 Price: $7.99 Age Group: 10+ Taylor Dunlop
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