The Report Card

Name: The Report Card
Brand: Penguin Random House
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.29 (7 reviews)
Author: Andrew Clements
ISBN: 9780307207524

Author: Andrew Clements

Narrator: Dina Sherman

Unabridged: 3 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Listening Library

Published: 02/08/2005

Categories: Children's Fiction, Children's Social Themes, School

Synopsis

Fifth grader Nora Rose Rowley is really a genius.
It’s true.
But don’t tell anyone.
Nora always gets average grades so she can forgo the pressure-cooker gifted program or Brainiac Academy.
But when Nora gets one hundred percent fed up over testing and the fuss everyone makes about grades, she brings home a terrible report card just to prove a point.
Pretty soon her teachers, parents, and the principal are launching a massive effort to find out what’s wrong. Can Nora convince them that tests alone are a stupid way to measure intelligence?

About The Author

Andrew Clements is an award-winning author with five other bestselling middle grade novels available on audio from Listening Library: Frindle, The Landry News, The Janitor's Boy, The School Story, and A Week in the Woods. Mr. Clements taught in public schools near Chicago for seven years before moving east to begin a career in publishing. Now a full-time writer, he lives in central Massachusetts with his wife and their four children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kay

Back when I worked at the Public Library, I inherited a stack of Advance Reviewer copies. This was one of them, but I didn't notice any glaring typos like many Advanced books contain. I have mixed feelings about this book. On one hand, I applaud the pointing out that we can put too much emphasis on......more

Goodreads review by Mohamed

The amazing book The Report Card was written by the world's wellknown author Andrew Clements. The Report Card is about a very smart girl who pretends to be unclever and always tries to get bad grades. Nora Rosa Rowley is actually a genius that learned how to read alone at the age of two. She always......more

Goodreads review by Mara

Clements is a great youth storyteller. I have found his stories to be humorous and thought provoking. In this tale he questions state testing, the importance that as an American society we put on grades and testing and the special classes for the "smart" or "gifted and talented" kids (and how they g......more