She wants to find the treasure stolen and hidden by infamous bandit Kate Barlow. The boys are told that the digging will teach them to work hard, and eventually facilitate their rehabilitation into society, but in reality, the Warden has a hidden agenda. The work is exhausting, especially in the shadeless heat of the day, and potentially dangerous: the lake is populated by yellow-spotted lizards, whose venom is strong enough to kill a person. Stanley and the other boys are forced to dig a hole every day, five feet deep and five feet wide. Stanley becomes particularly good friends with a small but tough boy named Zero, whom we later discover is Hector Zeroni, a descendant of the woman who cursed the Yelnats family. He is assigned to Tent D, where he befriends his tent mates and slowly learns the ropes of surviving in the harsh conditions of the camp: terrible food, limited shower time, an uncomfortable bed. He is warned to watch out for Warden Walker.

Stanley is unlucky enough to be wrongly accused of stealing baseball star Clyde 'Sweet Feet' Livingston's shoes, and instead of being locked up in prison, he is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile detention and correction facility in the middle of the desert.ДЄfter a long and lonely bus ride, Stanley arrives at the camp and meets the lazy and nasty Mr. The Yelnats family is said to be cursed: Stanley's great-great-grandfather did not honor a promise he made to an old woman with magical powers, and misfortune has followed him and his descendants ever since. Stanley Yelnats IV is an overweight teenage boy from a poor family, whose future fortune depends on his inventor father discovering the secret to curing bad foot odor.

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