Stanley Yelnats Research Paper

Stanley Yelnats is a teenager whose family has been cursed for generations. Stanley is

falsely accused of stealing a pair of “Sweet Feet’s” baseball cleats that were donated to an

orphanage. He is then sent to a juvenile detention camp for boy called Camp Green Lake where

everyday they are expected to dig a 5 by 5 foot circular hole everyday, and if they ever found

something in the hole that the warden liked or found amusing they would get the day off. All of

the guys at Camp Green Lake were tough but Stanley meets boy named Zero and they become

to get very close as Stanley teaches Zero how to read while Zero helps Stanley dig his holes.

One day Stanley found a lipstick in his hole but X-ray took the credit for it and he turned

it into

the warden and got his day off. Apparently this was a clue to buried treasure, so the
warden made everyone dig in the spot where the lipstick was found to search for it. A few days
later Zero ran away and then Stanley ended up following him and they said that they wouldn’t
go back to Camp Green Lake so they went farther. They eventually got to the mountain and
started climbing to the top but then Zero passed out and Stanley carried him all the way to the
top. At the top there were onions and water that they ate and drank. After they finished they
decided that they were going to go back and look for the treasure.
Stanley and Zero got back to Camp Green Lake and started digging close to Stanley’s
hole where the lipstick was originally found. After awhile they hit something hard and they dug it
out and while that happened the warden came over and caught they and tried to take it from
them but the box had Stanley’s name on it. It turns out that the box belonged to Stanley’s great
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grandfather and Zero was Madame Zeroni’s great grandson so when Stanley carried Zero up
the mountain it broke the curse on his family. The case worker then proved that Stanley was
innocent and that Zero could go home as well. Stanley and Zero stayed close even when they
got back home and Stanley shared the wealth with his family along with Zero. I really enjoyed
this book and i would definitely recommend that everybody read it from twelve years and up.