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Homeschooled

A Memoir

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Homeschooled

By: Stefan Merrill Block
Narrated by: Stefan Merrill Block
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 A heartbreaking and empowering 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.” With no background in education and no formal training, 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. She forced him to bleach his hair and to crawl like a baby in a strange and regressive attempt to recapture his early years.

Long 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 all-consuming love. Childhood Education Education Motherhood Parenting & Families Relationships Memoir Funny
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A compelling and well-written book that successfully balances literary quality with strong narrative engagement. The writing is consistently strong, maintaining clarity and precision while still being expressive and engaging. The storyline is concise and focused, avoiding unnecessary digressions that often weaken pacing in similar works. Any secondary threads remain tightly integrated with the main plot, enhancing rather than distracting from the overall coherence and momentum of the book.

Engaging and well written

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