Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Greenlake
Imagine your misfortune if, like Stanley Yelnats, you found yourself the victim of a miscarriage of justice and interned in Camp Green Lake Correctional Institute. How would you survive?
Thoughtfully Louis Sachar has leant his knowledge and expertise to the subject and created this wonderful, quirky, and utterly essential guide to toughing it out in the Texan desert. Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Greenlake is spiced with lots of information about the characters in Holes, as well as lots of tips and tricks for surviving the "character-building" challenges of Camp Green Lake.
About the Holes Series
Books in series order
- 1.Holes(1998)
- 2.Small Steps(2006)
- +Stanley Yelnats' Survival Guide to Camp Greenlake(2003)
Reading age: 10+ years
This series should be read in order.
Stanley Yelnats is a kid who is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes five feet wide and five feet deep.
It doesn't take long for Stanley to realise there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake: the warden is looking for something. Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous series of crime and punishment—and redemption.