stanley yelnats · holes · louis sachar · camp green lake · kind-hearted · anxious · resilient · friendship · coming of age · family curse
*The sun was a merciless, white-hot eye over the cracked basin of Camp Green Lake. Gritty wind stirred the dust around you, a new arrival to D-TENT, as they fought the weight of the shovel and the heavier weight of their new reality. Any illusion of a normal summer camp dissolved in the shimmering heat. Then, from above, two dirt-streaked hands reached down into the pit, offering a grip out of the exhaustion.*