Schooled By Gordan Korm Summary

Capricorn Anderson is a 13 year old hippie,in the novel Schooled by Gordan Korman, who lives at Garland Farms, with his grandmother,Rain. Garland Farms is hippie commune from the 60’s and is now only populated by Rain and Cap. Cap and Rain have segregatedthemselves from the rest of the world so that they don’t have to deal with money hungry monsters of the world. They also don't know anything about the modern society. One day Rain is picking plums out of the trees when she slips, falls and breaks her hip. While Cap drives Rain to the hospital he gets arrested by the police for under age driving and driving without a liscense. He tells the police that he was driving his grandmother to the hospital. After the cop puts Cap in handcuffs

Zack Powers is the most popular kid in school, he is the captain of the football and soccer teams. Naomi Erlanger wants to be Zack’s boyfriend. Lena is Naomi’s best friend and Darryl Pennyfield is Zack’s best friend. Hugh Winkleman was the biggest dope in the school before Cap. A tradition at C Average is to elect the biggest dope as class president. Normally if the dope doesn’t sign themselves up then Zack does it for them. A couple weeks before election Cap moves into the school and is now the number one target for bullies like Zack and his friends. On his first day or second day he witnesses a fight. The two boys start calling eachother names like “buttwipe and jerkface”. At the end of the fight beginning the principal, Mr. Kasigi, Comes out and asked if anyone witnessed the fight. Nobody says anything then Cap speaks up and says “first buttwipe wanted to know what jerkface was looking at and jerkface wanted to know what buttwipe was looking at” then Cap says “couldn’t you see you were both looking at each other”. Zack and his friends put really disgusting things like rotting bananas in Caps locker because Zack knows Caps combination. Then one day they put a dead bird in his locker and Cap brings it outside and makes a memorial and just stands there in peace and quiet for five minutes. While he’s standing there Naomi starts to feel bad and decides to stand with him because she is satrting to like him. She helps him again by giving him directions to the