Everything you need to understand or teach Holes by Louis
Sachar. This novel is set in modern times and focuses on the
current circumstances of Stanley Yelnats, an unfortunate,
unlucky young man who is sent to Camp Green Lake for a crime he
didn't commit. Stanley's family is poor and believes themselves
to be under the curse of Stanley's "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-
stealing-great-grandfather." The curse has been extended through
multiple generations and began because the great grandfather,
Elya Yelnats, did not keep his promise to Madame Zeroni who
helped him. Stanley comes to America, where he marries Sarah
Miller, and though they work hard, they are "always at the wrong
place at the wrong time." The one Yelnats who was successful,
Stanley Yelnats the I, (Stanley's great grandfather) was robbed
of his fortune by Kissing Kate Barlow, an outlaw who stole
everything he had. Since then, the family has been poor.
Stanley's father is an inventor who is trying to find a way
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