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Stanley Yelnats, a boy who has bad luck due to a curse placed on his great- great-grandfather, is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention camp, for a crime he did not commit. Stanley and the other boys at the camp are forced to dig large holes in the dirt every day.
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Holes is a 1998 young adult novel written by Louis Sachar and first published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. The book centers on Stanley Yelnats, who is sent to Camp Green Lake, a correctional boot camp in a desert in Texas, after being falsely accused of theft.
The plot begins generations earlier in the northern European country of Latvia, where the seeds of a curse are planted. When the novel begins four generations later, the main character, Stanley Yelnats IV, is still living under that curse.
Summary. Part 1: You Are Entering Camp Green Lake. Stanley's Arrival at Green Lake. As Holes begins, a boy named Stanley Yelnats IV arrives at Camp Green Lake. Camp Green Lake isn't a camp; it is a juvenile detention center. And there is no lake, just a dry lake bed where boys are forced to dig holes.
A single conflict and question dominates all three intertwining narratives in Louis Sachar’s Holes: Are people subject to fate and more or less helpless to shape their lives, or can people choose to act in ways that either promote or hinder their well-being?
Louis Sachar’s 1998 children’s novel, Holes, tells the story of a boy accused of stealing. A judge sentences him to 18 months in a camp where a tyrannical warden has the boys digging holes that appear random.
