Theres a boy named Stanley Yelnats IV who was arrested because he is wrongfully convicted steal the sneakers of Clyde Livingston who was the famous baseball player and donate his sneakers to for a charity. He was been sentenced in Camp Green Lake for 8 months. He was a kind of boy that has no one friends and he always bullied. He thinks when he was riding in a bus to go to Camp Green Lake that this is just a regular camp that you can enjoy and nothing to worry. But when he sees the surroundings in the window, theres no lake in there. When he arrived at Camp Green Lake, he met Mr. Sir that have a lot of sunflower seeds, and when he asked Stanley to have a drink, he didnt give it to him. After that he met his co prisoners Zero, Zigzag, Squid, Armpit and Magnet the guys who will be with him in the tent. These guys dig holes every day, five feet wide and five feet deep, and if they have found something interesting, they can have a day-off. Warden always said that it is done because it can build character. Stanley Yelnats IV have experience a lot of misfortunes because their family have a curse that passed into generations. The family of Stanley have a quotation when misfortunes happen no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing great-great-grandfather, whose name is Elya
Yelnats. Elya is in love with Myrna and he wants to be his future husband. But theres Igor who likes Myrna. Father of Myrna decides that either the two has a bigger size of pig, he can take the hand of his daughter. Elya becomes desperate and known Madame Zeroni. Madame Zeroni gives a piglet to Elya to carry it in the mountain and sing with it. When he carry it in the mountain it became bigger. In exchange Elya should be carry Madama Zeroni too in the mountain and when he neglects it, Madame Zeroni cause curse in his generations. When the time comes when the dad of Myrnas let decide, whose pig is the bigger pig, he cant decide because the size is alike. So, he asked Myrna if who she wants to be married, the girl is given a hard time to choose between Igor and Elya. So, Elya decides to make Myrna choose Igor and the pig was his present for the wedding. Elya is sad because he thinks Myrna choose her, but she still has a hard time choosing him between Igor. It made him disappoint. Elya decides to go to America and forget his promise to Madama Zeroni to carry her in the mountain. In America, Elya meets Sarah, Sarah dont leave him even though theres a misfortune ahead if she be with Elya. And the song that Elya sings to the pig was pass in the future generations.