The Report Card

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The Report Card
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First edition
Author Andrew Clements
Cover artist Brian Selznick
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Genre Children's novel
Publisher Aladdin Paperbacks
Publication date
2004
Media typePrint
Pages173

The Report Card is a children's novel by Andrew Clements, [1] first published in 2004. The story is narrated by a 5th-grade girl, Nora Rose Rowley. Nora is secretly a genius but does not tell anyone for fear that she will be thought of as "different".

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Plot summary

9 year old Nora is not a normal child, and she figures this out as a little kid. To disguise her intellect, Nora observes and emulates her classmates so she doesn't stand out. She becomes interested in one of her schoolfellow, Stephen, and they become friends. When their CMT (Connecticut Mastery Test) scores come out, Stephen's low scores persuade him that he is stupid as students start treating the scores as a competition reflecting their intelligence. To encourage Stephen and prove the CMT scores are not important, Nora deliberately gets a bad report card: all D's except for a C in spelling.

Due to all the D's that Nora gets, her parents contact the school, and Nora starts to receive special attention. Soon, Nora reveals to Stephen that she is actually a genius and he comes up with a plan to prove grades don't reflect everything about a student. He intentionally tells the school's gossip, Jenny that Nora is a genius. As word spreads, Nora begins to act like a snob and challenges teachers by bringing up topics that have not been taught in class yet. When she is confronted by the principal, Ms. Hackney, the next day for scoring a zero on her last three tests, Nora explains that she loathes grades because they cause too much competition. She stays home the next day, pretending to be indisposed, but gives up her ploy when she discovers that Stephen has started a campaign for all students to rebel by scoring zeros on their next tests.

During an emergency school meeting, Stephen and Nora apologize on behalf of the involved students before the whole school. Nora expresses that she thinks grades cause too much competition, and that it causes the extra smart kids to be all snobbish and stuck-up, and the normal kids to think they're dumb. Mrs. Byrne supports Nora, saying that she did think grades were getting too much heed.

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References

  1. Webber, Carlie (April 6, 2004). "Review: The Report Card". Kidsreads.com . Retrieved May 30, 2016.