My favourite part of the story was when the warden came out to collect the golden lip cover that belonged to Katherine Barlow that Stanley found but X-ray took it and told he found it. The warden kept on saying to Mr. Pandanski was "Excuse Me?!" because Mr. Pandanski kept on talking back. The complain was about filling the canteens, caveman aka Stanley Yelnats was called up by the warden to give the canteen to her, she shook the canteen and said to Mr. Pandanski to hear the empty spaces. Mr. Pandanski filled the canteens and everyone had to start digging.
My favourite part of the story was when the story went back in time and told the story of Stanley's no good, rotten, pig stealing great, great grandfather Elya Yelnats. He loved a girl whose head was as empty as a flower pot. He was competing with a fat man to marry her, he went to Madame zeroni for advice to compete. Madame Zeroni told him to not marry her and go to America that was where her son was because her head was as empty as a flower pot but if he did want to marry her he had to take a piglet and carry it up the mountain everyday for it to drink water then if he did it he had to carry Madame Zeroni up the mountain. But if he forgot about Madame Zeroni he would be curse forever and