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Meeting rooms at the John McIntire Library will be unavailable during the remodel starting November 1, 2024.
Our Branch Library meeting rooms remain open and bookable.
Register 15 Seats Remaining
"A darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment" *This group is intended for readers 11-14 *AR point value 7 Snacks and refreshments will be provided!
Copies of the book will be made available at the Duncan Falls/Philo Branch Library.
Book Summary
Stanley Yelnat's family has a history of bad luck, so he isn't too surprised when a miscarriage of justice sends him to a boys' juvenile detention center, Camp Green Lake. There is no lake - it has been dry for over a hundred years - and it's hardly a camp. As punishment, the boys must each dig a hole a day, five feet deep, five feet across, in the hard earth of the dried-up lake bed. The warden claims that this pointless labor builds character, but she is really using the boys to dig for loot buried by the Wild West outlaw Kissin' Kate Barlow. The story of Kissin' Kate, and of a curse put on Stanley's great-great-grandfather by a one-legged gypsy, weaves a narrative puzzle that tangles and untangles, until it becomes clear that the hand of fate has been at work in the lives of the characters - and their forebears - for generations.
