After reading Holes by Louis Sachar, I went to look for another book by Sachar, and I found this book. At first impressions when I read this during summer school, I loved it, it was like a continued story and it had intense parts like Armpit getting arrested again. So it starts with Armpit working by digging holes in Austin, Texas and where he lived in. Then he meets Ginny, who becomes his neighbor and where he takes special care of her because of her illness. Later X-Ray comes in the story, originally from "Holes" where they (X-RAY and Armpit) were buddies from Camp Green Lake Correctional Facility who convinces Armpit into the selling ticket business. Armpit agrees to doing the business after X-Ray finally convinced him and this made him good money but one day he wanted to actually see Kaira Deleon, but Armpit had already sold the tickets. So X-Ray decides to "copy" one of those tickets and tell Armpit that he got the tickets, and this was the mistake because Armpit thought these were real tickets and soon he knew that he was sold out by his friend. When he was about to get arrested inside the concert, Kaira Deleon allowed them to stay at the best seats along with Ginny and they had a lot of fun.
I thought this book was funny how they got the names like Armpit and X-Ray but as if you read book One, you would learn that Armpit was named because he was stung by a scorpion in the armpit. His real name is Theodore Johnson which was shown early in the book but they continued to use Armpit.
I would highly recommend this book if you do not have a book currently to read because this book is simply well-written and you could tell because you can almost visually see what's happening in your mind with the imagery used in the text. This book is also good for English class because it has enough literary terms and devices for you to examine.
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