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3.5 stars
I feel a teeny bit irritated with this book. As a former homeschooler, I put up with far too many people assuming my education resembled Cap's to read about someone portraying exactly that kind of homeschooling with any equanimity.
Let's be clear, yo. I did have friends. I did use books. I did use a computer. I did not have goats. And yes, I did do school in my PJs. And with quarantine, I still do.
So, please, stop portraying homeschoolers as a bunch of weirdos!
But I get it in this book. The point isn't so much that Cap was homeschooled in a hippie commune. (Though obviously, that plays a central motivating role.) The premise is what happens when you drop a kid raised by hippies and without much sense of modern technology in a public school.
It actually paints a really affirming and sweet look of a kid raised to know at his core who he is. And while his extreme naivety gets him in some unlikely situations, I liked how his personality changed the people around him. The book does not sugar coat middle school. And because of that, it shows why homeschooling helped Cap become his own person without dealing with all the crap associated with school.
The ending left me slightly unsatisfied. (view spoiler)[Sure, it is great. He is rich. He will be reunited with his friends. But what happens once Cap becomes self-aware? High school will not be pretty for the poor kid (hide spoiler)]
There was a lot to like. Thanks for the recommendation, Dad!