Holes

Stanley Yelnats was the only passenger on the bus, not counting the driver or the guard. The guard sat next to the driver with his seat turned around facing Stanley.

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There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. There once was a very large lake here, the largest lake in Texas. That was over a hundred years ago. Now it is just a dry, flat wasteland.

For him, at least, it would be over. For his parents, the pain would never end.

You make the decision: Whom did God punish?

Why would anyone go to Camp Green Lake?

The reader is probably asking:

Stanley was from a poor family.

That was what some people thought.

You will die a slow and painful death.

You won’t die.

The Warden owns the shade.

There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.

sé, Theodore, and Ricky. They called themselves Magnet, Armpit, and Zigz

ot of sunflower seeds,” the bus guard said.

Stanley noticed a burlap sack filled with sunflower see

Magnet, Armpit, and Zigzag.

tent. “Three easy words: pen, dance, key.”
Mr. Sir

red-eyed” lizard

white-tongued” lizard

leap out of very deep holes to attack their prey

eat small animals, insects, certain cactus thorns, and the shells of sunflower seeds