Schooled is a great 208-page fiction book by Gordon Korman. It has you hooked the moment you start reading it! Its about a boy who is a hippy named Capricorn Anderson who is living with his grandmother, named Rain, in a commune that’s still living like its 1960’s. The commune is called Garland and Cap loves everything about it, the trees, the flowers, the love from the only person he knows, his grandmother, but Cap will have to leave Garland when his grandmother breaks her hip while picking plums from a tree. And so Cap has to stay with a woman named Mrs. Donnelly and her daughter Sophie (who does not like Cap) until Rain is well enough to take Cap back to garland. While staying with Mrs. Donnelly Cap will have to attend a school called Claverage middle school. Cap doesn’t know what to think of the place there are computers, cell phones, money, and so many things Cap hasn’t even heard of. Not only that but Zach powers and Naomi Erlanger don’t make it any easier on Cap. To them he is the weirdo hippy kid and so they do what ever they can to make Cap miserable at his new school, like electing him class president as a joke! But Cap is so clueless on what is going on he doesn’t even realize what is happening. Luckily Cap meets one person to show him around, Hugh Winkleman. But soon things start to happen, to Cap, Hugh, Sophie, Naomi, and Zach.
Things no one and I mean NO ONE would expect. But you will just have to read the book to find out what. Maybe Cap will start getting used to the 21st century life style, or maybe Zach and Naomi’s plan will blow up in their faces.
I gave this book a 8 because it was a really fun book to read and when you start reading about what Cap does and how he acts its so different and strange that you can’t help but to really like his character. If I had to change one thing about the book it would have to be the fact that everything at the end happened to quickly. I think it would have been nice to read more about what some of the other characters were thinking. I would recommend this book to boys or girls 11 years and older because it takes place in a middle school and you can relate to some of the things that happen.
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