02734cam a2200421 i 4500 2823844379 TxAuBib 20260727120000.0 r 260721s2026||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780369774729 electronic bk. 0369774728 electronic bk. MWT19945077 Midwest rda TxAuBib rda Block, Stefan Merrill, author. Homeschooled [Hoopla] : A Memoir / Stefan Merrill Block. [United States : Hanover Square Press, 2026. Made available through hoopla. 1 online resource (288 pages.) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Instant title available through hoopla. 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. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Hoopla eBook. Education. Families. fast Home schooling. Motherhood. Parenting. Autobiography. Biography. fast Electronic books. hoopla digital. https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/18257502?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh4534 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/hqn_9780369774729_180.jpeg Cover image CLMPL