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Louis Sachar Holes Essay

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My all-time favorite book is Holes by Louis Sachar. Stanley Yelnats is a young boy who has a lot of bad luck, because of a curse that was placed on his because of his great- great grandfather. He is accused of a crime he didn’t commit and is sent to Camp Green Lake. Camp Green Lake is a juvenile detention camp where the boys have to dig holes as a punishment. While at the camp Stanley realizes that they aren’t digging for a punishment they are digging because the Warden is looking for something. Louis Sachar the author of this book intertwines two big stories together. He tells the story about the curse of Stanley’s family has a curse and what the Warden is looking for. Zero gets tired of being mistreated at the camp and runs away. A little
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