home schooling

A collection of essays examining the controversy surrounding home schooling, the reasons many parents are deciding to home school their children, the benefits and drawbacks of home schooling, and other related topics.

As fifteen-year-old Kit does chores on her family's Vermont farm, she puzzles over her mother's apparent unhappiness, complains about being homeschooled after a minor incident at school, and strives to communicate just how important dance is to her.

Describes the experiences of an eight-year-old girl and her family who are educating their children at home.

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.

Presents sixteen essays that examine issues related to home schooling, written by supporters and detractors.

Homeschooled by her mechanic-environmentalist father, eleven-year-old Rachel "Ratchet" Vance records her efforts to make friends, save a park, remember her mother, and find her own definition of "normal.".

Eleven-year-old Whit's zookeeper parents have rarely allowed him to go outside of the Alabama zoo they run, but he stops seeing it as such a cage when he meets "Bird Girl, for whom the place is a refuge from problems at 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.

Twelve-year-old Ambrose, forced into home schooling after a brutal attack by bullies at his new school, strikes up a friendship with Cosmo, the son of his landlord, and convinces Cosmo to take him to a local Scrabble club meeting while his mother is at work.

Jess McConnell travels to Belize and learns about the country, its archaeology, and even about herself.