Stanley Yelnats Timeline and Summary

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Stanley Yelnats Timeline and Summary

  • We first meet Stanley on a bus to Camp Green Lake. He's been sentenced to the camp for eighteen months for a crime he didn't commit. Not cool.
  • Bonus: Stanley's family is cursed because of a promise made to an old gypsy woman a hundred and fifty years ago.
  • When Stanley arrives at Camp Green Lake, he meets Mr. Sir and Mr. Pendanski and is assigned to D Tent. He meets X-Ray, Zero, and the other boys from D Tent. Everyone has weird names and no one is particularly nice.
  • Every day, Stanley and the other boys have to dig holes, but we're not quite sure why.
  • Stanley slowly befriends Zero and teaches this unlikely friend how to read.
  • When Zero runs away from camp after a pretty violent fight, Stanley follows him into the desert. And if that weren't heroic enough, he then carries his friend up a mountain to safety.
  • At this moment, Stanley feels happy for the first time he can remember. (And we, as readers, smile a bit.)
  • The boys decide to go back to Camp Green Lake and try to find a buried treasure, but in the middle of the operation, the Warden and the counselors appear with flashlights. Also, they realize that they're in the middle of a yellow-spotted lizard nest. Not good.
  • Just in the nick of time, a lady named Ms. Morengo arrives, and it turns out that she is Stanley's lawyer and he's been proven innocent.
  • Stanley and his family use the treasure to escape poverty and buy a house. And, of course, Stanley and Zero remain friends.