Stanley Yelnats's family has a history of bad luck, thanks to their no-good-dirty-rotten-pig- stealing-great-great-grandfather! ... As punishment, the boys must each dig a hole a day, five feet deep and five feet across. ... The worst thing is to be bitten by a yellow spotted lizard because you will die a slow painful death. At Camp Green Lake it is believed that if you take a bad boy and make him dig a hole every day in the hot sun, it will turn him into a good boy. ... I was really curious after reading the opening chapter of the book because I wanted to know what was going to happen ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This would allow them to receive their earthly penance, since no one knows that God's ultimate punishment will be. ... The peasants" demands for Chapter food and greater freedom became more insistent. ... They had five children but his sixth child died when she was young and one of the five, Magdalena, died when she was fifteen. ... Katherine was the type that she was popular and unpleasant of cures of the day giving the patients cow's dung or pig in wine. ... He died in 1546 because the cold developed that nobody could cure him, not even his wife(45). ...

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• Grade Level: High School