Stanley Yelnats IV has had some bad luck lately. Well, actually, his whole life has been alot bad luck, but recently his luck has been really bad. I mean, how many people get hit with some shoes falling out of the sky and are convicted of stealing them? How was Stanley supposed to know that the shoes belonged to a famous baseball player? Of course, no one believes him and he has the choice of going to jail or to Camp Green Lake. Stanley has always wanted to go away to camp like other kids do, so he leaps at the chance to go to Camp Green Lake. But when Stanley arrives, he finds out that there is no lake at Camp Green Lake - there are just a bunch of holes.
It doesn't take Stanley long to figure out that there is more to Camp Green Lake than meets the eye. At first it is all Stanley can do to dig his 5 x 5 foot hole everyday and deal with the bad-tempered, sunflower-seed-spitting Mr. Sir, the seemingly kind-hearted Mr. "Mom" Pendanski, and the rattlesnake-venom fingernail polish of the Warden. As Stanley spends time at Camp Green Lake, he learns more and more about himself and discovers that the camp really was successful in building his character.
I loved this book. It was a fast fun read with great characters and four different stories tied together into one. The main story is the one of Stanley Yelnats IV and his experiences at camp, but we also follow the story of Stanley Yelnats I who was robbed in the middle of the desert and survived by using "God's thumb", there is Stanley's "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather" who got him into this mess in the first place, and the sad story of Kissin' Kate Barlow, the outlaw who robbed Stanley Yelnats I. These stories are creatively put together which ads lots of humor, sometimes-dark humor but the stories are quite funny all the same.
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