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LocationOakland
Call NoBIOGRAPHY BLOCK
TitleHomeschooled : a memoir / Stefan Merrill Block.
AuthorBlock, Stefan Merrill, author.
Barcode47660111116691
CollectionNF Biography
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.
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International Standard Book Number 9781335000989
Personal Name Block, Stefan Merrill, author.
Title Statement Homeschooled : a memoir / Stefan Merrill Block.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Hanover Square Press, [2026]
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice ©2026.
Physical Description 288 p. Hardcover 24 cm.
Content Type text txt rdacontent.
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia.
Carrier Type volume nc rdacarrier.
Summary, Etc. "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.
Subject-Personal Name Block, Stefan Merrill.
Subject-Personal Name Block, Stefan Merrill Family.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Home schooling Texas Plano Anecdotes.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Authors, American 21st century Biography.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Mothers and sons Biography.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Coming of age.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Mothers Mental health Anecdotes.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Psychic trauma.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Plano (Tex.) Social life and customs 21st century.
Index Term-Genre/Form Autobiographies. lcgft.