{"product_id":"homeschooled-a-memoir","title":"Homeschooled: A Memoir","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/span\u003e BESTSELLER!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*A\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e BookRiot \u003c\/span\u003eBest Book of the Year*\u003cbr\u003e*A \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eBookPage \u003c\/span\u003eMemoir of the Year*\u003cbr\u003e*A Top 10 Amazon Book of the Month Pick*\u003cbr\u003e*A \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/span\u003e Book to Read in January!*\u003cbr\u003e*A \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eLibrary Journal \u003c\/span\u003eBigBook of the Week!*\u003cbr\u003e*A\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003e BookRiot\u003c\/span\u003e Best New Nonfiction of January!*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eA heartbreaking, empowering, 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStefan 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAt 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.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hanover Square Press","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42866457378896,"sku":"9781335000989B","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781335000989-l.jpg?v=1788211583","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/homeschooled-a-memoir","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}