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Stanley's family has an interesting history through the generations. His family's bad luck started all with great-great-grandfather, Elya Yelnats. Elya took a pig from a gypsy to help him impress the father of a beautiful girl in hopes of marrying her, the gypsy made a deal with Elya. The deal was for Elya to carry the pig up a moutain so it can drink from it's river every day for the next forty days, then after forty days he was to carry the old gypsy, Madame Zeroni, up the moutain so she could drink from it's river, she warned Elya if he failed to do this that he will have bad fortunes even through the generations.
This history weaves in and out of Stanley's present life. I recommend you read this book because it is written beautifully, weaving in and out of Stanley Yelnats' generations, from his great-great-grandfather's life to his own, and how they tie together. This is also a great book because the characters are so real, from the Camp Green Lake campers, to the Green Lake townspeople. There are many characters with very unique personalities. The kids from Camp Green Lake are very tough, like one of the kids Rex or X-ray is the leader, Magnet is a thief he got his nickname because he says his fingers are like magnets. There is also Zigzag, Armpit, Squid, and Zero.
Zigzag, Armpit, and Squid are very muscular and tough from spending so many days at Camp Green Lake, they also are very loud and talkative unlike Zero. Zero is very silent and runs away one day, Stanley also runs away in search of Zero. Stanley also finds out that Zero was really the one who stole the shoes Stanley supposedly stole, by putting them on top of a car and the car was at an overpass when the shoes fell off and hit Stanley on the head. The cops saw him with the shoes and arrested him. Zero is also an example of how Stanley's family history ties with his present life because Zero's real name is Hector Zeroni, he is the great-great-great-grandson of the old gypsy, Madame Zeroni.
This is an excellent book from beginning to end.
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