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Homeschooled : a memoir / Stefan Merrill Block.

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Summary:

"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. [So] 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." -- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781335000989
  • ISBN: 1335000984
  • Physical Description: 277 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2026]

Content descriptions

General Note:
"Read with Jenna"--Cover.
Subject:
Block, Stefan Merrill.
Block, Stefan Merrill > Family.
Home schooling > Texas > Plano > Anecdotes.
Mothers and sons > Biography.
Mothers > Mental health > Anecdotes.
Psychic trauma.
Coming of age.
Authors, American > 21st century > Biography.
Plano (Tex.) > Social life and customs > 21st century.
Genre:
Autobiographies.
Anecdotes.

Available copies

  • 58 of 83 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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  • 2 current holds with 83 total copies.
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Jacksonville Main Library BIO BLOCK (Text) 36015000762621 Adult New Biography Checked out 08/13/2026

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