Name: Homeschooled
Price: 396.00 ZAR
Availability: InStock
Author: Stefan Merrill Block
ISBN: 9781806770038

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Wilton Square Books

Author

Stefan Merrill Block

Year

2026

Pages

288

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.40 x 15.30 cm

ISBN13

9781806770038

Homeschooled

Stefan Merrill Block (Author) · Wilton Square Books · Hardcover

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Delivery: 03 Jul - 27 Jul

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Synopsis "Homeschooled"

A heartbreaking, empowering and often hilarious debut memoir about a mother's all-consuming love, a son's perilous quest to discover the world beyond the front door and the unregulated homeschool system that impacts millions like him

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 erratic 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 unseen space and into his mother's increasingly eccentric theories and projects. 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.