Ever met a true hippy? One that's only thirteen-years-old? Capricorn Anderson lives in a commune, has been raised by his hippy grandmother all of his life, is a vegetarian, wears tie-dyed clothing, has long hair, has never even seen a television, much less watch one, and has been homeschooled his entire life. Can you imagine what happens when his grandmother is sent to a physical rehab center to rehabilitate from a serious injury and Cap is forced to live with a foster family and face the "real" world? The middle school he has to now attend has a time-honored tradition - elect the school loser as class president in order to torture him throughout the year with outrageous requests and unreasonable demands. Cap should have been the perfect target.
Cap's classmates fail to realize he is not the average kid. Despite his goofiness and non-stop blunders, you can't help but like Cap. Before long, he becomes the most popular kid in school! Though the ending of this story is a little rushed, I couldn't help but laugh throughout. This novel is one of my favorites.
If you like Alabama Moon by Watt Key, give this title a try.
I can't say it enough, this book is SUCH a GREAT read! I am almost finished with it but I have to say that Capricorn Anderson is the type of kid you would definitely want as a friend. He marches to the beat of his own drum, doesn't care what people say, and on top of that, has a great heart.
ReplyDeleteI have laughed, and teared up a little at the tenacity and courage of Cap to overcome alot of his struggles. Another highly recommended read!
If you could go back in time to the 60s would you? reading this book made it possible. Its about a 13 yearold hippie living on a comune farm called Garland Farm. He has no parents or family besides his grandmother Rain who runs the farm. They live in thier own little world aside from the real world were money was the only thing that matterd, so naturely he was homeshcooled. rain gets injured and has to go to the hospital. Capricorn Anderson the only child hippie left on earth will have to go to a regular school and live with a normal family. Zach Powers. thats the only nice thing i could say to him.He thinks hes mister cool but all that was about to change! Cap comes to school thinking everthing was dippie hippie but then he sees the kids . he thinks thier crazy, they think hes crazy. He elect him school president as a joke not an honor. naturely a hippie was okay but confused about this. Then comes the harsh part, they put dead and beoynd discusting things in his locker send him to imagernary rooms for president meetings and throw spitballs at his head witch he doesnt even feel!!!!!!!! he never says a word about any of it not even when he starts getting letters of love. Then he hears about the halloween dance and that he has to plan all of it cool for him! then there is the pep rally that he was the spotlight of when he was tackled by the whole football team. and not to mention the fight between Darryl and Zack that caused him a bloody nose. All in all the was by far the best book i've read all year I hope you enjoy it as much as i did!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis book took me back in time to the 60's and me realize that not just becouse you are different you can't fit in. It also made it interesting to read becouse there are kids my age and we have alot in comen. Cap Anderson is a hippie guy that doesn't know anything about technoligy or any thing about modern time. I think this is the best book i have ever read.
ReplyDeleteSchooled is a very interesting book. Cap is a seventh grade hippie who lives on a commune. One day his grandmother is teaching him a vocabulary lesson while shes climbing a tree to pick plums! But then she fell and Cap had to drive her to the hospital. They were almost there when he got pulled over and arrested for driving without a license!!! So the police took his grandmother to the hospital and Cap had to stay with a foster family.
ReplyDeleteWhile he was at the foster family he had to go to regular school. At Claverage Middle School they had a tradition to elect the biggest loser 8th grade president, Cap was first in line! He was the perfect one too. Not because he was a loser but because he was very kind and caring. At first everyone was mean but then he drove a bus and saved the drivers life! After that everyone started to see how good he was and started hanging out with him more. Cap did alot of god things for Claverage Middle School, he will be remembered there for a long time! I HIGHLY RECAMEND THIS GREAT BOOK!!!!
Wow, Schooled by Gordon Korman is AWESOME!!! Who could have ever known a 13 y/o hippie would have to face the real world by only trying to save his poor granny?? Picking plums really isn't something a 65 year old shou;d be doing for a past time, much less, for needs! This book is really crazy. I wou;d think at some times these people here need to get their brains checked out. :) Cap is a very special kid. He's so clueless to the world he faces, but yet, he really doesn't react to anything the kids at C average Middle School (Claverage) do to him! What a dude! There should be more people on Earth like Cap! But the students shouldn't have took advantage of him like that. This book teaches WAY more than judging a book by its cover... It teaches that you should read the pages, too. Again everyone, check this book out!!!!
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this is a great book if u like books that are very very funny. they take cap from a neighborhood that should have been in the 1960's and put him in a modern day school it ios sooooo funny case cap dosent mind all the things that they are doing to him like tripping him and shooting spitballs at him and cap just thinks it is normal. :) READ THIS BOOK IT IS AMAZING
ReplyDeleteSchooled is a very good book. This book brought me back to the hippy times! And the them of this story is that no matter who you are you can fit in just right woth the crowed. It is also people kids my age and are in 7th grade and have the same conflicts we do today in middle school. That is what makes this book pop out to me and it is very very very funny!!!!!!
ReplyDeletehi i thought this was awesome it portrays the reality of high school middle school and any other kind of school life i hope that lots of pple read this book its comen mood threw out the whole book is really funny i would think but any who this book made me lagh feel simpithy and think about everything that happens in real life.....for instint what if a new kid came to dr.hill middle and was very different would u cast heor she out or would u get to know them and actually give them a chance!and i give *cap* a thumbs up for keeping the peace if we all just kept the peace think of how much better the world would go round:))at the beggining of the book i thot that the way the students at c average middle treated cap was just horiffying but then as i neered the end of the book i started to see the change in character towards cap. so if u do deside to read this book for top tigers i think u would really digg the vibe u know!!!PEACE*** p.skeep the peace:)****sighned ms.R a.k.a timmany toodles ily!!!
ReplyDeleteI think that this is good book.
ReplyDeleteI think this book was pretty awesome!! I loved it! I hope you guys did too. It really shocked me when Naomi kissed Cap in the boys bathroom! That was fuuny :D It was sad when Zack Powers tried to be mean to Cap. :( but maybe he'll change his ways. OK! That's all I gotta say! Loved it!
ReplyDeleteWow!!! this book is so good and funny.I love all the diffrent piont of views its so great.I love this book
ReplyDeletethis book is amazing you have to read it. Its like being the new kid for the school. the story line can be quet touching. but the book is about a kid who changes the school. you have to read it to learn more!!!!! good book =) =) !
ReplyDeletei thot the end of the book was just wowsers i would never exspect that from rain of all pple?
ReplyDeleteThis book was a good comedi. I enjoyed it. Inever imagined how it was going to end! I could not believe it turned out so good for cap! I enjoyed this book!
ReplyDeletesincerly,Joan P.
shloded sounds like a book tht u think it might all action but its really an awesome book that if like comedy and hippies that u will most likely enjoy and also luath till u puked your guts out so i would really recomend this book to evryone
ReplyDeleteSchooled is a great book. Cap is a boy who grew up with a hippie life-style and is placed into the modern world.I love how Cap is so un-knowing about the real world and doesn't understasnd that people are making fun of him.I would so reccomend this to ppl who luv different points of view in a story and is interested in humor. I think it shows how middle school really is and the author is AMAZING @ telling the story from different points if view. THIS IS AN AMAZING BOOK!!!!!!!!!!!!:P READ IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI loved this book! I think it was amazing how Cap just ignored everything the kids at school did to him! This book was so cool. The end is the best part. I love how Rain changed! This is a awesome book! I think everyone should read this!
ReplyDeleteI love this book because it's about a boy that was homed schooled and then his grandmother fell out of a tree so she went to the hospital and then he had to go to a middle school they made him president they played tricks on him then they started to like cap then cap had to go home b/c rain was out of the hospital then rain change and cap went back to the same school and the best part is he learned all there names!The whole school should read it@drh!
ReplyDeletei know thatcap is a hippi that lives on a farm called garlend.i know that rain got hurt when she fell out of a treeand cap had to take her to the hospital.she couldn't home school him any more so he had to get foster parents ,but this women named mrs.donaldly took him in she grew up on garlend.He met this girl named sophie that didnt like him. when he went to c average middle school picked on him.zac the boy that set him up to be the school president kept trickinghim.Cap ignored all the horrible things that the students did to him.soon he became popular because he took all the things to him and did not fight. when the dance came up cap didn't know what to do.he had alot of people come and help him with the holloween dance.mr.kasigigav e him checks to help with the dance but he used most of the money for charity.at the pep rally winkleman convinced cap to put on a rine cliff jersy. rine cliff was the schools rilvery.when cap went out there he got hit so hard he went to the nurse.after darell found out that zac and winkleman set cap up.darell tried to hit cap put he acidently hit cap. cap got halled off in a ambulance by rain because they let her out.sophie picked cap up to go to a holloween dance but they were at his memorial. when cap went back to garlend he started to drive a truck on garlend but they stop him.soon he found out that rain sold garlend and that they were rich.thats the end of this story.
ReplyDeletethis book is cool. it is about this boy named cap that lives at garland farm. his grandma gets hurt and he has to get a tast of reality. he lives with this famliy untill his grandma gets better. he goes to school and these bulleys pick on him and he becoms the new eigth grade president. they scedual all of these metings in fake classrooms. he also geys laughed at for paper in his hair. they tell him that he has to learn all of the students names. one day he is rideing home from school and his bus driver has a heartattack. so he grabes the wheel and heads for the hospital. on the way he gets pulled over by the cops and gets aressted. so the famliy he is living with bales him out. then he has to plan the holloween dance that is comeing up. he gets everybody else to do it for him. so, the pep rally is today and caps "friend" has taken cap in the bathroom and puts pades on him and a rinclif jersey on him and sends him out and he gets nailed. then a coupel days later cap was trying to stop the fight that was about to happen and he gets a broken nose. when he gets out of bed in the hopital his grandmother is there. he is going back to garland farm. then about two weeks later he finds out that he is going to the hollween dance with soffey. (there is no dance it has been canceld) they are there but out side. she tells him to put a miky mouse hat on ann dance. when the got out of the car every one was dressed like him. (they think that cap is dead so this is his funaral) they find out that cap is not dead and celebrete. he goes to garland and finds out that she sold garland. then they where rich.now he goes to c averedg middle school. that is it.
ReplyDeleteI really loved this book very much.The way Cap Anderson was so nice to people,even when they did mean things to him.I know i would get mad when Cap's classmates kept throwing things in his.
ReplyDeleteyou will have to read the book to know what happen in the end
GREAT BOOK!!!!
Cap Anderson is a hippy in the middle of no where and when his grandmother gets hurt he hast to go to a real svhool insyead of being home schooled.well Cap hast to live with another family and her daughter is very mean to Cap and her name is Sophie and Cap is always nice to her. Sophie's father is low lifed and he said he was going to get Sophie a bracelet and he ran a way and never got it and she was devistated. So Cap got her the bracelet. Well all the kids at Cap's school at first just wanted to make fun of him and in the end everybody liked him alot. One day Cap got picked on so bad and he didnt go to school for like a week all the kids thought he died so they had a momorial for Cap and Cap came and said his goodbyes because he was going back to garland and that he wasnt DEAD!!!
ReplyDeleteThis book is very good!!!!! It is about a boy who has never been to school or even know what a check is!!!!!!!!!!!! He finally has to go to school cause his grandmother got in a accident. He makes new friends and becomes school president. I recomend this book to anyone who loves a good loving story!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteSchooled waz an awesome book. I loved it. A hippie named Cap and his grandmother Rain live together at Garland. One day caps grandmother gets hurt and Cap has to go to a C Average Middle School. He has been home schooled at Garland with his Rain. He has to stay with someone untill his grandmother gets better. He stays with this girl Sophie and her mom and Sophie don't like him. He meets a lot of people and becomes school presedent. There is a school dance coming up and he just found out about it. So the he needs to use a check and he dont know how to use one. He uses the check for Sophie in stead of the school because Sophie's dad promises her a bracelet and he dont give it to her. He ends up back with Rain and she ends up selling Garland because she owns it and she never told Cap about it. So now him and her live together again. I recomend this book to anyone who loves hanging off the end of their seat.
ReplyDeleteSchooled waz an awesome book. I loved it. A hippie named Cap and his grandmother Rain live together at Garland. One day caps grandmother gets hurt and Cap has to go to a C Average Middle School. He has been home schooled at Garland with his Rain. He has to stay with someone untill his grandmother gets better. He stays with this girl Sophie and her mom and Sophie don't like him. He meets a lot of people and becomes school presedent. There is a school dance coming up and he just found out about it. So the he needs to use a check and he dont know how to use one. He uses the check for Sophie in stead of the school because Sophie's dad promises her a bracelet and he dont give it to her. He ends up back with Rain and she ends up selling Garland because she owns it and she never told Cap about it. So now him and her live together again. I recomend this book to anyone who loves hanging off the end of their seat.
ReplyDeletethe book xas a good book cause the ending had me surprise of how all the people respect a person who never went to schoool
ReplyDeleteCap sets an example to every kid in school. Never let what people say effect what you truly believe. This book really impressed and amused me. The way Cap brings his hippy attitude into school is truly hililarios. Also, I love the changing point of view cycling between charecters at random. You would love this book, hippy or not.
ReplyDeleteI loved Schooled! This was a great book with dredlocks and the 60s! I would recomened this book to anyone who loves the Beatles! :-)
ReplyDeleteSchooled was a great book. I enjoyed how he had to move and live in the real world that he knew nothing about. It made the book funny . I recomend this to people who love to laugh.
ReplyDeleteschooled was a great book! Cap is a hippy he lives with his grandma. she broke her hip so she had to stay in the hospital while Cap had to go to school. C Average Middle school was a place that was modern and not like Cap, Cap became the 8th grade president and gave people money for fundraisers instead of paying for the school dance. everyone at the school loved Cap until he got hit by the football players. everyone thought he was dead eacuse he went home with his grandma but then came back when everybody was saying words for cap. they soon relize he wasnt dead and he went home but he soon stayed at C Average Middle school where he would be happy with his class mates. :)
ReplyDeletethis book is really funny. it is about this hippie that has no clue about anything and has to go to school.he has no clue about any thing that is gonna happen to him. i could not put it down.these kids trick him in to being presdent of there school and he has no clue of what they have done.
ReplyDeleteIlove this book.Its about a hipppie boy who was homeschool and never whent to school.His grandma fell off a tree and had to go to the hospital.Cap (the hippie) had to go to school with a social worker.He was elected school president to be made fun of. Well he ended up being a very popular kid and had many freinds.
ReplyDeleteSchooled is a book that stresses that it is ok to be diff. & I recomend it it was verry good.
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ReplyDeletethis book is ahhmayzing!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI loved this book. The second i read the first sentence: "I was 13 when I first saw a police officer, I was getting arrested for driving a pickup truck without a license" It just kept my nose in it and i could not put it down, i always wanted to see what would come next. I finished it up in about a week and am doing a report on it for my english class. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is into this kind of stuff. I would definately read it again :)
ReplyDeletei love this book the first time when i pick up and read it i coudnt stop reading the book thats come from a boy
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This is one of the greatest books i ever read and i hate reading
ReplyDeleteThis is the best. This is my favorite book. I think we can learn manythings from this book. Such as: "HOW TO BE A GOOD FRIEND".
ReplyDeleteOmg the best book ever!!! Everyone should read SCHOOLED!! I Luv Cap
ReplyDeleteI loved this book. Cap is sooo cool. Zach is a meanie.
ReplyDeleteHippies rule. The granny is awesomem..
I think this book is good so far my class is reading diffrent books and im readming schooled
ReplyDeleteI have questions...
ReplyDelete-Why does Cap by Sophie her braclet?
-Where does he get the money.
-How does he get it delivered to her?
-State TWO reactions Cap have to has to any of this meaness.
-List NINE things that were done to Cap.
-Cap gets a check book from Mr. Kasigi. He says "Be responcible with it".. give THREE examples of how he spends the $...
-List THREE benifits of a student being home-schooled.
-List THREE negitive factors to a student being home-schooled.
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ReplyDeletethis book rocks!!!! :) i cant wait to read it again!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteSo, we have just started reading this book today,. And I don't really like reading books, but this one seems a bit interesting..! (: I just got on Google and typed the name of the book to see what the book was mainly about and I read everyone's comments up above mine. And I think I'm gonna L-O-V-E this book!! <3 (:
ReplyDeletegreat book
ReplyDeletehey these comments are great! it is a great book!
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rain is sooooo awesome! i hate Zach it was soo cute when naomi kissed cap!
i love this book it was really cool they should make a movie
ReplyDeletehavent read the book yet but cant wait tooooooooooo i know i will love the book because it is by the one and only GORDON KORMAN
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