Stanley Yelnats finds himself, after an unlucky miscarriage of justice, at Camp Green Lake. A juvenile detention centre which isn’t green and doesn’t have a lake. Each day, Stanley and the other inmates are forced to dig a hole 5ft wide by 5ft deep and report anything that they find in the hole. The evil camp warden claims that this is character building but Stanley may just dig up the truth.
Writing Outcomes
- Narrative
- Non-Chronological report
- Informal letter writing
Topic links
- America / USA
- Crime and punishment
- Racism
- Friendship
- Conflict