HOLES, by Lous SacharAR Level: 4.6 Points: 7
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Stanley Yelnats is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile camp, for a crime he didn’t commit. The boys there are forced to dig holes all day long in the hot desert sun. They figure out that they are digging because the warden is looking for something. There are three stories weaved into the book—one about a gypsy, one about a tragic kiss between a white teacher and an African American onion seller, and another about "Kissin Kate Barlow," who the white teacher becomes after her black onion seller is killed. She robs and kills men, leaving a lipstick mark on their dead faces as her trademark. She buries all of the money from her crime spree, then dies. Stanley ends up digging up the treasure, which is what the warden has been looking for the entire time. The warden tries to take it from him, but his lawyer shows up to say he’s been found innocent of the crime that put him there—and he gets to keep it and return home. This book had me rooting for all of the boys that were being mistreated at Camp Green Lake.
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