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Holes by Louis Sachar was a very interesting book! Stanley Ylenats, the main character, is caught up in bad luck from his ancient family curse, by being at the wrong place at the wrong time. He is over weight and never ever sticks up for him self when the class bully picks on him. Even though Stanley is large for his age he is too scared to stick up for him self. He is in the wrong place at the wrong time when a stolen pair of shoes is dropped over the bridge into his hands. Later Stan realizes that they are Clyde livingstons shoes, one of the most famous basketball players ever. Stanley is charged of robberry and is unfairly sentenced to months at detention camp, at Camp Green Lake. At Camp Green Lake there really is no lake. It dried up years before that. Everyday he is forced forced to dig a hole, five feet in diameter and about five feet down(length from tip of shovel totop of wooden handle) in the rock hard desert soil. Each bo