Capricorn Anderson a 13 year old boy who lives with his Grandma named Rain. Cap has never been out of his town Garland and doesn’t know what life is out of his Garland. He gets a chance to learn about the outside world when Rain falls out of a plum tree and breaks her hip and while she is recovering Cap moves in with a social worker named Mrs. Donleavy who also grew up in Garland. Cap attends a local middle school called “C Average Middle School” and gets bullied and harassed because of the ways he looks, he has very long hair and wears sandals and basically looks like a hippy. Every year at C Average some kids nominate the biggest loser as class president and that person this year is Cap. He didn’t know this was a hoax so he took this very seriously by trying to learn everyone’s names and plan the big Halloween dance. But Cap runs into a couple of problems he was given checks by the principal Mr. Kasigi from there school fund, but rain has taught Cap to Be very generous so he gives most of the checks to charity. One day at school there was a pep rally for the football game because C Average is playing there rivals so Cap got dressed up in the other teams uniform and the football team tackled him and he got knocked out because of it. Then Darryl who tackled him really hard felt bad and tried to beat up Zach Powers who planned the hits and Darryl tried to punch Zach but Cap believed in no violence so he stepped in front of Zach and took the hit and got knocked out again but this time he got a big bloody nose. I won’t tell you some of the more important events in the book because it would give away the story line. On a scale of 1-10 I would give this book a 8 because some parts were kind of boring but most parts were exciting and funny. If I could change something about this book I would try and have Cap Accomplish more things as class president.
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