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Question 27:
Stanley gets hit by a pair of sneakers and the police found him. Stanley found a gold empty tube, which turns out to be the lipstick that belonged to Kate Barlow. Stanley begins a friendship with Zero. He teaches him how to read. Zero ran away from camp after being insulted by the camp leader and Mr. Sir. Stanley and Zero find a case, which is the lost treasure of Kate Barlow.
Question 7 Setting -the book holes takes place in a juvenile detention center that is in a lake in Texas. Most of the story is in the end of the 1990’s. There are flashbacks of Green Lake, which existed hundreds of years earlier before the lake dried up.
Question 10
Stanly is the main character of this book His family has a history of bad luck, Stanley is wrongfully convicted of stealing sneakers but zero is the actual boy that stole them, and is sent to the detention center, Camp Green Lake. He arrives there and has low self-esteem because no one would believe him that he did not steal the sneakers, but after being friends with Zero and surviving Camp Green Lake, he leaves with physical and emotional strength.
Question 12
There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.” (p. 3) this is the opening line of the book It immediately sets confusion because usually there is a lake if the name of the place has lake in its name
Question 9 and 25
I would say that the book, "holes" can be mysterious, in a way. It just kind of goes back and forth of time & you'll just eventually have to predict what will happen next and why it is so. I'd recommend this book to teenagers, because it's very easy to follow along and it also makes you think more often.
Question 16 Stanley is the protagonist of Holes. He is an overweight boy who does not have any friends from school and is picked on. Stanley's family is cursed with bad luck and although they do not have much money they always try look on the bright side of things at the end of the book Stanly found the lost treasure and ended up being

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