Holes

Holes, by Louis Sachar, has 233 pages filled with drama and excitement.
The book starts off with Stanley Yelnats and him walking down a street along
an underpass, pefectly unsuspicious of anything. Stanley and his family,
unfortunately, are on the more poor side, so when he gets hit in the head with
a pair of shoes worn and signed by a famous athlete he begins running as
fast as he could home to show his mother and father the fortune he had just
found. While darting down the underpass the police see him with the shoes
(which were stolen) and take him away. Stanley has a choice, he could have
either gone to jail or Camp Green Lake. As we all probably already know, he
chose the second one.

Stanley definately perseveres through his time at Camp Green Lake and
all of the bad things he has to put up with. Facing the warden, facing Mr Sir,
and the harrassment from all of the other "campers". Especially when his only
true friend at Camp Green Lake, Zero (Hector Zeroni), runs away.
He has to trudge through the sizzling hot desert to find him, which he finally
does. I connected this book to my experience at 6th grade camp because
towards the end I was feeling kind of tired and homesick. I thought the book
was terrific, though I wouldn't recommend it for young children because it has
some violence in it.