by Louis Sachar
This is, again, a novel for young people. I know, I know, but isn't it your favorite stories from your youth that stick with you the longest?
This story tells the tale of Stanley Yelnats the third. After being accused of stealing a pair of shoes Stanley has to choose between going to jail or going to a correctional camp, the choice seems easy at the time. Stanley soon finds himself shipped off to a camp in the middle of a dry desert, no water to be seen for miles, two pairs of orange working clothes and a camp-full of real criminals who have been there for too long. He soon finds out that the camp is completely based around digging holes in the desert, the guards say it is to build character, Stanley believes that you wouldn't dig through a whole desert unless you were looking for something.
This story was without a doubt one of my favorites when I first began to be assigned books at school. Don't you miss the good old days where they used to assign you good things to read in class? I do agree that some classics are classics for a reason, some... I just don't know....
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