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By
the way: Some of the chapters are flashbacks and describe events
which happened about 110 years ago. They are quite important to
understand the whole story | more
about that | and are very closely connected to
what happens in the camp in the desert. With the web-project we concentrate on
these aspects more than on all the boys in the camp, although they
are quite interesting as well. Stanley
Yelnats is an overweight, awkward boy. There was a curse on his no-
good-dirty-rotten-pig stealing-great-great-grand-father | more about
him |. Stanley has to
go to a bootcamp called Camp Green Lake
(there is no lake at
Camp Green Lake, only dry wasteland.), because he is suspected to have stolen the sneakers from a famous baseball player called Clyde
Livingston. But Stanley is innocent! In this Camp they all have
to dig a hole every day. Stan meets a guy called Zero in Camp Green
Lake. He starts teaching Zero to write an to read, therefore Zero digs
Stanley's hole , because Zero is such a fast digger. They get close
friends. But one day Zero is provoked by one of the counselers.
Zero hits him with his shovel and runs into the desert. A few days
later Stanley follws him. They have no idea that the female warden
is looking for a treasure. They help each other to survive in the
desert and some days later they come back secretly. In an old hole they
dug weeks ago they find
the treasure the warden has been looking for all the time. Suddenly a
wman comes together with guards and the warden to
realease Stan because the judge found out that Stanley really is
innnocent... by
Judith 
The
camp in the desert: Seven cots in each tent and some crates for the
boys' personal belongings
Drawing by Maike
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