Holes

For my last outside reading, I chose to read the book Holes by Louis Sachar. This book is about a boy names Stanley Yelnats who gets himself into some trouble. Stanley was accused of stealing a pair of shoes donated to charity by a famous athlete, Clyde Livingston. He is then sent to Camp Green Lake, a boys' juvenile detension center in Texas for 18 months as punishment. There, each boy spent his day in the desert, which contained a lake during the 1800s, digging a hole five feet deep and five feet wide. The Warden and counselors at Camp Green Lake tell them that they are digging to build character and break them of their criminal habits, but Stanley eventually finds that the warden is searching for the treasure hidden by the outlaw Kissing Kate Barlow. In the end we discover that the warden is actually Kissing Kate herself and the treasure is found.