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After all, if the target doesnвЂ™t even know heвЂ™s the butt of a joke, whatвЂ™s the point? Still, it's not easy forВ Cap to fit in, andВ he takes on a lifetime of schooling a just a few months.ДЄlthough author Gordon Korman occasionally uses stereotypes and plot resolutions so over-the-top that Schooled may seem like a suburban fairy tale, his message is powerful and effective. Strangely, almost miraculously, these qualities are the very things that render him almost impervious to the designs of the chief tormenters in the school. All Cap has are his nonviolent values and his honest naГЇvetГ©. The difference is, they have the tools to deal with anyone who veers from the mainstream: practical jokes, bullying, and/or sympathetic distancing. Wild, vicious, ugly.вЂќ CapвЂ™s classmates are as bewildered by Cap as he is by them. IвЂ™d read about physical violence, but this was the first time IвЂ™d witnessed it in real life. On his first day, Cap witnesses a fight between two students: вЂњI was horrified. He moves in with a social worker, to the mortification of her terminally cool teenage daughter, and begins his education anew. When Rain is hospitalized, Cap must temporarily join a culture of an entirely different hue: that of Claverage (a.k.a. As one of only two remaining members on a remote alternative farm commune, Cap is homeschooled by the other, his grandmother, Rain.

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But he has no idea how to read the social map of the traditional American public school. At age 13, Cap (for Capricorn) knows how to spell barometer and psychedelic, how to build a Foucault pendulum, and how to grow plums. I hope one day people make this book in to a movie. I also would recommend this book to 7+ вЂ“ 8+ year olds boy or girls. I would give this book 10 out of 10 stars. Over all, this book is a very good book to read. When I read this book, it is almost like watching TV. In this story, the author does a really good job of describing the characters and how they interact with one and another. This story has a really good moral about being yourself and that is good because people can know who you really are. I liked this story because it tells about a 13 year-old boy homeschooler who goes to a public middle school and becomes the 8 th grade President. If I were to change it, I would make it a series. This story sounds really interesting in the name and really believable when you read the story. Special Thanks to Tyson, age 11 from Apex NC for this review: It also gives the reader the experience of being homeschooled by a loving but strong woman from the seventies I wish that all of us could take away some of the ideas and live in the world of Capricorn Anderson. The book was written in first person, while telling the story from different characters, which gives the reader a different perspective on the details in the story. He is thrown into the world of middle school, and it doesnвЂ™t change him, he changes them. After being homeschooled by Rain, Capricorn has a different attitude than anyone else at the school. While she recovers from this ordeal in a hospital,he is forced to live with a family and go to middle school. Will Cap turn out to be the greatest President in the history of C-Average School? Or the biggest punchline?ДЄn interesting twist to homeschooling, Capricorn Anderson was taught entirely by his hippie grandmother Rain until the day she fell from the plum tree. But as Cap begins to take on his duties, the joke starts to turn on Zach. So when Cap becomes president, he is more puzzled than ever. He canвЂ™t wait to instate the age-old tradition in C-Average School: The biggest nerd is nominated for class presidentвЂ“and wins. This is great news for Zach Powers, big man on campus. His weirdness basically makes him biggest nerd in school. He has long, ungroomed hair, wears hemp clothes, and practices Tai Chi out on the lawn. Cap doesnвЂ™t exactly fit in at Claverage Middle School (dubbed C Average by the kids). While Cap knew a lot about Zen Buddhism, no amount formal education could ready him for the trials and tribulations of public middle school. But when Rain falls out of a tree while picking plums and is hospital-ridden, he has to attend the local middle school and live with his new guidance counselor and her irritable daughter. He was homeschooled by Rain, the only person he knew in the world. Capricorn (Cap for short) had lived every day of his life on Garland Farm growing fruits and vegetables. And he had never, in his wildest dreams, thought of living anywhere but Garland Farm commune with his hippie caretaker, Rain. Capricorn Anderson had never watched a television show before.

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