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Camp Green Lake: Zero's Friendship

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Have you ever heard of the book holes someway about to boys with a great friendship that will risk anything for eachother? Camp Green Lake is a camp for bad boys were boys dig holes for consequences but ironically nothing green and there is no lake. Stanley changes throughout the story because of his friendship with Zero. Before his time at Camp Green Lake and at the beginning of his time there he was looked down upon by the other boys. ¨He stayed in the tent to write the letter so Squid and the others wouldn't make fun of him for writing to his mother¨.(Sacher 81) They would make fun of hi for writing to his mother,and he did not like it.¨What are you my mother,I got allergies okay,open your mouth again and iĺl break your jaw¨.(Sacher 83)He

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