| Book Talk: Camp Green Lake is not what it appears. There is no lake. There is no camp, unless you consider incarceration a fun way to spend the summer. Stanley is at the end of his luck, what little he's had all his life. Accused of stealing sneakers, he is sent away to Camp Green Lake rather than going to jail. What he finds out is that jail would have been a whole lot better.
Rising each day early, the boys are made to dig holes, five feet deep and five feet wide in the hot Texas sun, avoiding the pitfalls of heat and creatures. Out of necessity, Stanley learns to live in the group of outcast boys and befriends Zero, (the name speaks volumes as does Stanley's palindromic one). But why are they digging these holes for the warden, a woman who paints her nails with rattlesnake poison? The plot thickens in tall tale fashion and you can't read fast enough or cheer loud enough for Stanley and Zero. (New Hampshire Great Stone Face Committee)
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