| International Standard Book Number |
9781335000989 (hardback)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1335000984 (hardback)
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| Personal Name |
Block, Stefan Merrill, author.
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| Title Statement |
Homeschooled : a memoir / Stefan Merrill Block.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Toronto, Ontario : Hanover Square Press, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
277 pages ; 24 cm.
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| General Note |
"Read with Jenna"--Cover.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Part one. Very special boy -- History's greatest thinkers -- Anywhere Lane -- The haunted place -- Part two. Suckers -- Down on all fours -- Mighty forces -- The nemesis -- SNICKERZ4U -- Blood and birthday cake -- Part three. Where's the beef? -- QGHF -- The detection of deception -- The suicide capital of America -- Part four. 1,565 miles from Plano -- Harriet the hamster -- The place where babies come from -- Part five. The boy from Nowheresville -- Little more time.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Stefan Merrill Block was nine when his mother pulled him from school, certain that his teachers were 'stifling his creativity.' Hungry for more time with her boy who was growing up too quickly, she began to instruct Stefan in the family's living room. Beyond his formal lessons in math, however, Stefan was largely left to his own devices and his mother's increasingly erratic theories and whims, such as her project to recapture her twelve-year-old son's early years by bleaching his hair and putting him on a crawling regimen. Years before homeschooling would become a massive nationwide movement, at a time when it had just become legal in his home state of Texas, Stefan vanished into that largely unseen space. But when, after five years away from the outside world, Stefan reentered the public school system in Plano as a freshman, he was in for a jarring awakening. At once a novelistic portrait of mother and son, and an illuminating window into an overlooked corner of the American education system, Homeschooled is a moving, funny, and ultimately inspiring story of a son's battle for a life of his own choosing, and the wages of a mother's insatiable love."-- Book jacket flap.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Block, Stefan Merrill.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Block, Stefan Merrill Family.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Psychic trauma.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Coming of age.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Dysfunctional families.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Authors, American 21st century Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Jenna's book club.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Home schooling Texas Plano Anecdotes.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Mothers and sons Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Mothers Mental health Anecdotes.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Education and state Reform.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Plano (Tex.) Social life and customs 21st century.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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