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Homeschooled Capricorn (Cap) must learn how to fit in at his new middle school when he is elected to be class president as a prank.

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ISBN-13:	9780316564502
Publisher:	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	05/07/2024
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	38,848
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.60(h) x 0.80(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

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Gordon Korman published his first book at age fourteen, and since then he has written more than one hundred middle-grade and teen novels. His favorites include the New York Times bestsellers The Fort, Linked, The Unteachables, and Restart. Gordon lives with his family on Long Island, New York. He invites you to visit him online at gordonkorman.com.

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"Korman’s novel...is his usual smart, funny, slightly skewed realism. Tweens will definitely identify."—Kirkus Reviews

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Thirteen-year-old Capricorn "Cap" Anderson has only left the Garland Farm Commune (founded 1967) with his grandmother ("Rain") a few times for supplies. He doesn't know what TV is like, and he's never held money in his hand. When Rain falls from a plum tree and has to spend two months in the hospital, Cap gets his first real taste of the confusing, "real" world of 2007. Fortunately, his caseworker Mrs. Donnelly spent a few of her childhood years at Garland, and she knows what he's in for. Unfortunately, there's this tradition at Claverage (C-average) Middle School in which the eighth-grade class elects the strangest kid and biggest nerd to be Class President. They don't come any stranger than Cap, and Zach Powers and his clique do their level best to make Cap's life hell. Claverage gets a taste of peace, love and understanding it won't soon forget. Korman's novel narrated by the good, the bad and the only slightly involved is his usual smart, funny, slightly skewed realism. Tweens will definitely identify and could view their grandparents in a whole new light. (Fiction. 9-14)

Kirkus Reviews

Capricorn Anderson, raised in a commune, is a child of the ’60s—living in the 21st century. A full-cast production recounts his madcap transition from home school to public middle school. A number of characters tell the various parts of Cap’s story, including members of his foster family and his classmates. Cap himself offers precocious reflections on the problems with modern society. Cap’s character comes across as youthful and suitably naïve, but some of the other adolescent voices sound too old. None of the narrators stand out, but no weak performances mar a seamless, well-modulated production. Older children who enjoy their school stories with tons of humor and heart will warm to Cap’s story. C.A. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine

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