The Report Card

Nora is a girl who is really smart and when she was in Kindergarten she met a boy called Stephen and he wasn't quite smart. Because of that Nora made her grade low for example she got D's and C's. When Nora was 3 she put a puzzle together that had 100 pieces, after Nora told a plan to Stephen and

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to some other kids to have F's on their test's so the teachers would realize that report cards don't matter. At the end everyone get's to know that Nora is smart and they want her to go to a gifted program which is a program for kids who are smart. But Nora doesn't want to go to the program because she wants people to think of her of a girl who is a normal kid. I recommend this book for people who like books which are novel's.

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So far it is a pretty good book. I think it is weird that she is trying to get bad grades so she can be average. She is acullaly very very smart but she doesn't want people to know. It is an AR book.

This is a great book that students in upper elementary school would enjoy. When Nora discovers that she is a genius she decides to hide this from her family in fear of acceptance. When she discovers her best friend has difficulty in school she uses her knowledge to guide him. This book has an

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excellent story line and would be great to read as a whole class.

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this is about a girl who fakes bad grades

A girl, far beyond her10 years, takes the school establishment to task after pulling the wool over everyone's eyes her entire life, even, and most importantly, her parents. Far-fetched and somewhat insulting to the adult population, but that's what makes Clements' books so much fun!

Erik Varvodic
3/23/10
Literature – Book Report

The book I am reading is called “The Report Card”. The author is Andrew Clements. This book is realistic fiction.
The main character in this book is Nora. Nora is a smart person, but she keeps it a secret. She gets bad grades on her report card to

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inform people it’s not a big deal if you don’t get good grades. Nora changes from partly dishonest to honest during the end of the story. Nora does the right thing when she leaves her computer without logging off and the librarian saw that and she was very smart from the sites she was visiting. I can identify with her when she didn’t want to read her grades out loud at dinner to her family. If I got bad grades on my report card, I wouldn’t want to say them out loud either.
Another character is Stephen. He is one of Nora’s best friends. During the middle of the story, they came up with the plan to make everyone get 0’s on their tests. Although the teachers and principal soon found out and their plan failed, they still look out for each other. Another character is Ann. She is Nora’s older and smarter sister. When everyone finds out how smart Nora is. Ann was mad but she didn’t mention it. She isn’t talking much in the story, but this was the one main thing that happened with her. This story probably took place in the spring time, and the location was at school. The setting made the story more exciting because most events occurred in the school.
There wasn’t much of a moral to this story, but the author was trying to say that you shouldn’t make grades the most important thing in your life, and you shouldn’t try to avoid them either. This story was mainly about importance of friends and working hard. I learned that you should stand up for what you believe in, some people will follow you. A problem in this story was that Nora got bad grades on her report card and when her parents found out how smart she really was, her grades improved.
In the beginning of the story, Nora brought home a report card with all D’s and one C. But she did it on purpose. She didn’t want to read aloud her grades at dinner, but her parents soon found out and they were mad. They had a meeting with the principal, but it didn’t help. When Nora was reading some information on the computer, she didn’t log off and some problems began. When the librarian saw how smart Nora was by seeing what kind of info she was looking up, she was going to be in trouble. Nora didn’t confess how smart she was. Instead, she told the librarian that she had it in mind. Stephen was trying to make these flyers so everyone could get bad grades on all their tests to prove a point. When all the teachers found out, they had another meeting with Nora and her parents. Nora and Stephen almost got suspended for 2 weeks, but then the librarian gave a speech on why they shouldn’t be suspended and then they weren’t in trouble anymore. Nora didn’t try to get anymore bad grades, and Stephen and her were still friends.
I thought that this book was exciting and fun to read. I liked the part when Nora and Stephen didn’t get suspended, and then they weren’t in trouble for everything they did. I didn’t like it when she got three 0’s on tests and her parents were furious. This story was more easy to read than most books I thought, so it wasn’t confusing or hard to believe. This story wasn’t really predictable to me. I think this story was believable. The ending was when Nora and Stephen got off the bus and talked about what just happened at the meeting.

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My third-grade son loves Andrew Clements. This is the third of Clements' books that we've read recently. Like many of Clements' books, this one is set in a fifth grade classroom. Nora Rowley is gifted, but tries to hide this fact. She is concerned about all of the emphasis that is placed on test

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scores, and to make this point, she underachieves and brings home a report card filled with D's.

The pace of this book was a little slow. It felt as though the major plot points were repeated several times with small variations. But it did open the door for my son and me to have very frank discussion about grades and tests. If for no other reason, that made this book more than worth the time we spent reading it.

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Grade 3-7

Fifth-grader Nora Rowley is a genius. She takes college-level astronomy courses online and teaches herself Spanish from watching televeision. However, she is masquerading her intelligence for the sake of her average friend, Stephen. In addition, she does not wish to be singled out as a

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genius. Only the librarian, Mrs. Byrnes, knows this about Nora. She thinks that tests "are based on a bunch of stupid information that anybody with half a brain can memorize." When Nora brings home five D's and one C, she sets off a revolution among Stephen, her family, her other classmates, her teachers, and the administrators. She does this to prove that intelligence does not solely depend on test scores. Her plan to sabotage test scores backfires when the school discovers her intelligence and performs some "tests" on Nora.

The story has moments of tension: Will Mrs. Byrnes reveal that Nora is taking college classes on line? Will Nora's intelligence be discovered by the school psychologist and place her in the school's gifted program or Brainiac Academy? The story provides readers with a child's point of view regarding the controversial issues of tests. In addition, Clements highlights the pressures that administors, teachers, and parents feel on tests. The story will generate discussions among parents, students, administrators, and teachers.

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Part D Popular

Clements, A. (2004). The report card. New York: Scholastic.

Nora Rowley has known that she was different from a very young age. She has also known that she doesn’t want other people to know about it either. Able to read by the age of two and a half and a fabulous memory are part of

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what makes Nora a genius. But she has managed to keep it a secret from everyone until now. As a fifth grade student, she sees the importance and stress that everyone puts on grades and test scores and she doesn’t like how it affects students. She knows how it makes some kids feel superior and others feel dumb. So Nora and her best friend Stephen set out with a plan to change things.
Testing and good grades is an issue every school-age child must face. Clements addresses the issue from a child’s perspective. Then ends with a positive message and optimistic attitude about schoolwork and doing one’s best. Ages 8-12.

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I thought this book was bad because it had to many big long conversations.
It is AR. This was at my leavel.

In this story a little girl figures out that in Kindergarten she is very smart but she doesn't want people to know that she is in order to get through school without people looking at her all the time and watching her every move. She becomes a copy cat and does this with a boy who happens to be in

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her classroom all the way up to third grade. When they both get to the third grade though they have to take a standardized test and when her best friend doesn't do very well he is no longer the patient fun loving boy he once was and is easily frustrated with school. She decides to do something drastic, fail her classes. She wants people to know that grades shouldn't matter and everyone should be treated the same way. She has to meet with teachers, parents and lots of other people to see what is going on with school but one day, the teacher finds out just how smart she really is... what happens with the rest of third grade? Do grades go up or do they stay the same?... Read to find out! Very good book to read with students when it comes to the standardized tests in the school system.

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Nora is really a genius, but is determined not to let anyone know it, so she gets poor grades - very poor, 5 Ds and a C. She doesn't want her best friend to feel bad about himself, plus she is rebelling against all the stress the teachers are putting on students because of the state standardized

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tests. Eventually, Nora begins to realize that her intelligence is a gift.

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This book is about a girl who is smart but does not want people to know that she is smart. The people think she is dumb but really is not. She brings home a card which is a report card. She gets 5 Ds and 1 C....... Next day she goes to school and does some research on a pc. Her teacher notice that

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she is not dumb but smart. Thats why I think this book is good.

I love this book because it tells me how smart the person is. The author Andrew Clements is a good writer because he/she did a good job at writing the book.I got sucked in this book from just reading The Dollar which is a good book from the same author. This book is good for people at the age of 10-14 because of the grammar. The grammar in the book is well writen. The Report Card is recommended for people who like to read books such as a bookworm. Thats why I love this book.

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Nora has known she was gifted sense the moment was a toddler. But, her family, peers, nor teachers knew how gifted she was, and that's the way she wanted to keep it. Nora wanted how grades and test dictate her community and school;and how it made children feel. Nora sets a plan to change this, and

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with the help of her best friend Stephen she does.

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The Report Card is a book about a girl who is trying to prove a point about the grading system.She fails a test just to show that some students fail because they dont fell like studying or doing work but when they really try they can achieve anything.

This is a book about a girl named Nora. Nora is very intelligent. Nora doesn’t want to be seen as being intelligent. She always makes sure not to answer all the questions on a test correctly, even though she knows the proper answers. She seems to push it a little too far when she brings home a

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report card full of D’s. Her parents are concerned and wonder why they had no warning that their child was having that much difficulty. Nora convinces other students to join her in her plot to prove that too much importance is placed on grades.

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SUCH an amazing book. This book is about a young girl who is incredibly talented and gifted, and is actually a genius… but for her entire life, she has pretended to not be smart so that she wasn't different! This book goes through the struggles of children in school, being proud of who you are,

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and why grades are NOT the most important thing in school.

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Fifth grader Nora is a genius but has learned to hide it from everyone. She reaches a point where she's fed up with grades and testing and the stress they cause for others. Does getting a bad grade mean you're a bad person? Does getting good grades mean you're better than everyone else? Nora takes

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a stand by deliberately earning poor grades but when it's found she has an IQ of 188, will everyone miss the point she was trying to make? Not the best story I've seen from Mr. Clements.

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A few pieces of implausibility, but actually most of them get cleared up by the end (so don't give up if at first you're thinking the book is silly or whatever). I really do like this author (Frindle, Things Not Seen).

This book is about a gifted child name Nora that is trying to hide the fact that she is so intelligent. She then creates a plan to challenge the school system and the idea of testing and all that goes into it. I found the plot line to be engaging by leading to what Nora is going to do next. The

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writer's style also made reading the story very comprehensible.

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Not the best book I've read, but certainly woth reading.

Nora is a REALLY smart girl, but she hides her smartness and pretends she is average. She does this for his best friend Stephen, because he is an average student. After a wile, the librarian finds out that she is smart. Then every body finds out that she is smart. But then, Nora and Stephen make a

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plan that will get every body thinking about grades. But, on the next day of school, her plan is the least of her problems...

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