Stanley Yelnats is sent to Camp Green Lake for a crime he didn’t commit. There is no lake. There is a dry, cracked flat where every boy digs one hole a day, five feet deep and five feet across, because the camp says it builds character.
Stanley blames his luck on a curse that has followed his family since his great-great-grandfather. The chapters move between Stanley’s summer and a story from more than a hundred years earlier, and it becomes clear that the warden is looking for something, and that the curse, the lake and Stanley are all connected.
Paperback, 288 pages, published by Yearling. Winner of the 1999 Newbery Medal and the National Book Award. Suggested for ages 10 to 12.
Details
- Author: Louis Sachar
- Publisher: Yearling
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 288
- Reading age: Ages 10 to 12
- Language: English
- ISBN-13: 9780440414803
- Condition: New
- Sold by: Sleevary

