Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.
Contains nineteen essays that offer varying perspectives on issues related to homeschooling, discussing the ways in which homeschooling affects children, whether homeschooling should be regulated, which children should be homeschooled, and what methods homeschoolers should use.
Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his mother sends him to be home-schooled with a hostile blind girl, his divorced parents cannot stop fighting, and his grandmother is dying of emphysema.
Tells, in their separate voices and at a space of fourteen years, of Emmy, whose baby has been stolen, and Sophie, a teenager who defies her nomadic, controlling mother by making friends with a neighbor boy and his elderly aunts.
Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.
Offers parents considering homeschooling an overview of homeschooling and the demands it places on families, students, and parents, explores common myths about homeschooling, explains how parents can better relate to their children as students, and discusses how special needs students can benefit from homeschooling.
Ben and Elaine from "The Graduate" settle down to a quiet life in suburban Westchester to home-school their two sons, and when a crisis arises, bringing Mrs. Robinson back into the family's life, the couple attempt to shock her by inviting a family of hippies into their home.
Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his mother sends him to be home-schooled with a hostile blind girl, his divorced parents cannot stop fighting, and his grandmother is dying of emphysema.
