One of the best tween books I've read in a long time. Sort of like Love, Stargirl in that the main character is quirky and marches to a very different drum.
Capricorn (Cap) has spent his whole life at Garland (a commune left over from the 1960s) and then one day his grandmother, Rain, falls out of a tree and life is never again the same.
Cap is placed with a temporary foster family and goes to public school (8th grade) for the first time.
Public school is another world to Cap and he is like a visitor from another planet. The popular kids make Cap a target, but he doesn't react quite the way they expect. Voted 8th Grade President as a traditional school joke~Cap believes everything he is told including that he must learn all 1100 student names.
I enjoyed this quick read and would recommend it readers ages 10-14.
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