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Stanley Yelnats's family has always had bad luck since his great-great-grandfather broke a promise to a woman in his Latvian village. Now the bad luck has caught up with Stanley Yelnats IV. Falsely convicted of a crime he did not commit, Stanley is forced to attend Camp Green Lake -- a juvenile detention facility located within a dry lakebed. Every day, the residents of the camp must dig a hole five feet deep and five feet around. Ostensibly the hole digging is to build character, but Stanley figures out pretty soon that they are actually digging to find something, and Stanley and his friend Hector Zeroni, also known as Zero, try to escape Camp Green Lake and solve the mystery of the holes.

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