Summary Of The Story Schooled

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Schooled Summary Schooled is a story about a 13 year old boy named Capricorn (Cap) Anderson who is a hippie from garland. the middle school is where where the story is mostly set as well as his temporary home and even partially at garland farm. The main problem Cap faces is being a huge outsider and knowing nothing about public school or the outside world or even pizza and tv is a completely new concept for Cap. Cap is a nice person and is very confident everyone else is nice to, but unfortunately for him, he was wrong. One of the first things that happens is his grandma falls out of a tree and is driven to the hospital by Cap! But his grandma has to stay in the hospital so Cap goes to public school where he is almost

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