Holes by Louis Sachar
I both read Holes by Louis Sachar as a kid and then saw it after it became a movie in 2003. Both the book and the movie have stuck with me after all this time (though, I'm only going to focus on the novel from here on out). Stanley Yelnats IV is dreadfully unlucky. But, hey, at least it runs in the family. Everyone in the Yelnats family always jokingly blames Stanley's "no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather" who made a deal with a fortune teller, Madame Zeroni, to help him nurture a pig large enough to win the hand of his beloved back in Latvia. However, this great-great-grandfather of Stanley's did not fulfill his end of the deal with Madame Zeroni before moving to the US. But Stanley's latest bit of bad luck seems uniquely terrible. He was wrongfully convicted of stealing a pair of shoes that baseball player Clyde "Sweet Feet" Livingston had donated to a charity auction to benefit the homeless, and now finds himself at Camp Gr...
