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Part 1: Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4

• Stanley Yelnats is sent to Camp Green Lake for stealing shoes that he didn't really steal.

• Long ago, Stanley's family had a fortune stolen by a bandit called Kissing Kate Barlow.

• Stanley meets Mr. Sir, one of the camp counselors.

Part 1: Chapters 5, 6, and 7

• Stanley is assigned to Tent D.

• Stanley and his family, who know he is innocent, try to pretend that Camp Green Lake is an exclusive camp for rich kids.

• Stanley's great-great-grandfather Elya Yelnats had fallen in love with a girl named Myra.

• Elya had a gypsy help him wed Myra, but broke his promise to the gypsy and cursed his family for generations.

Part 1: Chapters 8, 9, and 10

• Yellow-spotted lizards are poisonous and deadly to anyone they bite.

• The boys in Tent D nickname Stanley 'Caveman' because he digs himself into a hole.

• Stanley finds a fish fossil in the hole he is digging...

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