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Our first novel we had read to us by Mr Kemp was //Holes//.It is about a boy called Stanley Yelnats who is very unlucky and when ever he gets in trouble he blames his no good dirty rotten pig stealing great great grandfather.He broke the law for stealing shoes.Special shoes.Well he didn't steal them. Like always he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.That's what I mean by unlucky. He goes to court and his punishmnet was he has to make a decision out of going to jail or another place ...Camp Green Lake. I know when you first hear about it it sounds really fun ... but it is not what you might be picturing .Swimming jetboating, making rafts ... nope ... digging.Till you get blisters .And maybe like Stanley more blisters over the top of the other ones. You should definitly read it. Or there is a movie .It is really cool because it has all the good detail like the book.Like when it rains for the first time in AGES at camp green lake. Especially when the yellow spotted lizard comes. OK, enough about the movie. You can probably get it at your local library. Louis Sachar is a great author and if you like //Holes// then you should get more of his adventure series. Zero, Stanley's friend, runs away from camp and lives under a wooden boat. He finds something he calls sploosh and it is some kind of delicious fruity liquid. Stanley goes out to find Zero.He does and they walk up to the top of a mountain and find a field of onions to live on. Stanley and Zero find water (muddy) and then they trek back off to camp to find treasure in a hole that Stanley dug one day and found a gold tube in. They find the treasure and the Warden and Mr Sir and Pendansky find them. Then a yellow spotted lizard jumps onto Stanley before the adults can take the treasure off the boys. Then Stanley realises that he had stepped in a nest of yellow spotted lizards. Zero also has a few climb on him. Then the book talks about what happened in the past at Green Lake when there was a man called Sam the onion man: a guy who grows onions and sells them raw, in a paste, and in ointments and creams. He tells a woman that it keeps away pests like yellow spotted lizards. That is why the lizards never insert venom into the boys because they smell of onions. (There is a yellow spotted lizard on the cover above.) When Stanley and Zero are almost rescued from the camp by Stanley's lawyer, the warden insists that the boys stole the suitcase full of treasure from her room, because she wants the treasure for herself. But then Zero figures out that there in black letters on the case it says ` Stanley Yelnats' .It was there because Stanley's family had heaps of people named Stanley Yelnats and that case was buried by one of Stanley's ancestors. When the boys are released from the camp, they use the treasure for great things. Stanley uses his half to buy a new house with a laboratory in the basment and Zero hired a team of investigators to find his Mom. In the end he finds his mum and it turns out she was looking for him the whole time to :0