Stanley is wrongfully arrested and tried for stealing a pair of baseball shoes that Clyde “Sweet feet” Livingston (Rick Fox), a famous baseball player, had donated to charity. Stanley is sent to Camp Green Lake, a juvenile work camp, for his alleged crime.

Stanley’s latest stroke of misfortune occurs when he is wrongfully convicted of stealing a pair of athletic shoes that belonged to the famous baseball player Clyde “Sweet Feet” Livingston, who donated the shoes for a charity auction.

Stanley’s father and grandfather and great grandfather are all named Stanley Yelnats. The first Stanley Yelnats, the protagonist’s great grandfather, made a fortune on the stock market. The family’s bad luck struck him when he moved from New York to California and was robbed by Kissin’ Kate Barlow.

Unlike the aggressive, venomous villains featured in the movie “Holes,” specimens from Lepidophyma flavimaculatum, commonly known as yellow-spotted night lizards, cannot kill humans. Due to the sharp teeth, a bite from this lizard can puncture the skin, causing a small bleed.

The lizards have eleven yellow spots, which are hard to see on their yellow-green body. They have black teeth, and white tongues. They like to live in holes, which offer them shade, and they can leap out of even very deep holes in order to attack their prey.

adult spotted salamander

Five-Lined Skinks are beautiful native lizards, harmless and useful to people. Five-Lined Skinks do have an unfortunate nickname: “Scorpion.” Let’s get this out of the way once and for all – there are no poisonous lizards native to the Southeastern United States.