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Chapter 45. The Warden shines a flashlight on Zero, who is holding the suitcase until she sees that there is a deadly yellow-spotted lizard on the suitcase. Stanley realizes he is standing in a lizard's nest. The Warden, along with Mr. Pendanski and Mr. Sir, wait for the lizards to leave.
Everything in the wreck room is broken. Stanley bumps into a large boy who tries to pick a fight with him. Stanley tries to avoid the fight and X-Ray and Armpit come to his rescue saying, "You don't want to mess with the Caveman." Stanley, Armpit, Squid, and X-Ray talk about the trouble of digging holes. Stanley has brought his box of paper to ...
They're between six and ten inches long with red-rimmed, yellow eyes. They have black teeth and white tongues. If anyone gets close enough to see the spots, they're as good as dead. The lizards live in holes and leap out to attack live prey. They also eat the shells of sunflower seeds. The yellow-spotted lizards are another way that the novel ...
Characters. Stanley Yelnats Character Analysis. Next. Zero/Hector Zeroni. Stanley is the fourteen-year-old protagonist of the novel, who has been wrongfully imprisoned at a labor camp in Texas for stealing a famous athlete’s sneakers. Before his wrongful conviction, Stanley was an overweight and extremely unhappy boy who suffered severe ...
Chapters 8-9 Summary. In Chapter 8, the story pauses briefly to describe the yellow-spotted lizard. Some people do not believe yellow-spotted lizards exist, but their bites are deadly whether or ...
The yellow-spotted lizard—which, fortunately, exists only in this book—has 11 spots, which are very hard to see. It also has red skin around its eyes, black teeth, and a white tongue. Most people who get close enough to see the yellow spots end up dead. The lizard lives in holes, which allows it to avoid the heat of the sun.
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Part 2, Chapter 44 Summary. Hours later, Stanley is woken up by Zero. Stanley starts to dig and Zero goes to refill their water jars. The night is very dark and neither of them can see if they are digging up anything valuable. After a while, Stanley volunteers to go grab more water, but Zero insists that he do it instead because Stanley is too ...
