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The main lesson in the story is that, despite of overwhelming odds, and as long as you know in your heart what you are doing is right, you must persevere in achieving what you are hoping and striving for, especially if it is for the sake of your family and friends.

The main setting of the story is in Camp Green Lake, an arid place in Texas where juvenile delinquents were sentenced for character building. It was a former settlement that was abandoned due to hot weather conditions.

The genre is fiction because none of this stuff really happened……
Or did it? : 0
One day Stanley Yelnats was walking home from school thinking about his dad`s new invention of reusable shoes when out of nowhere, these pair of shoes just fell out of the sky!!! Next thing he knew, he was in court for stealing Clyde Livinzton`s shoes. So the judge gave Stanley a choice for jail, or camp green lake for 18 months. So he chose the camp.
And so, Stanley seems set to serve an easy sentence, which is only fair because he is innocent. But Stanley is not going where he thinks he is. Camp Green Lake is like no other camp anywhere. It is a bizarre, almost otherworldly place that has no lake and nothing that is green. It a camp, at least not the kind of camp kids looks forward to in the summertime. It is a place that once held the largest lake in Texas, but today it is only a scorching desert wasteland, dotted with countless holes dug by the boys who live at the camp. The trouble started when Stanley was accused of stealing a pair of shoes donated by basketball great Clyde
Livingston to a celebrity auction. In court, the judge doesn't believe
Stanley's claim that the shoes fell from the sky onto his head. And yet, that's exactly what happened. Oddly, though, Stanley doesn't blame the judge for falsely convicting him. Instead, he blames the whole misadventure on his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-greatgreat-grandfather. Thanks to this benighted distant relative, the

Yelnats family had been cursed for generations. For Stanley, his current troubles are just a natural part of being a Yelnats.
At Camp Green Lake, the warden makes the boys build character by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the treacherous warden is searching for something, and before long Stanley begins his own search for the truth. And then he found this tube with the initials “K.B.” on it.
So he decided to keep it to himself. Then, a couple weeks later he saw that it was a lipstick tube that belonged to Kissin Kate Barlow.

Kate Barlow was a schoolteacher in Green Lake, Texas who was wanted by
Trout Walker, but she fell in love with the onion peeler Sam, were Caught kissing in public, Sam was doomed to be punished for that, as stipulated by the racist laws of that time. The townspeople threatened to kill Sam, but he escaped with Kate. He was later shot and killed by Walker. Kate turned into the most feared highway, bank robber and killer in Texas.
The warden scratches him in the face with some poison nail polish.
He doesn’t get poisoned with the nail polish, but he does have three big scratches on his face for a while.