{"product_id":"homeschooled-a-read-with-jenna-pick-a-memoir-9781335000989","title":"Homeschooled: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Memoir","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eA heartbreaking, empowering and 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\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYears 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt once a novelistic portrait of mother and son, and an illuminating window into an overlooked corner of the American education system, \u003cem\u003eHomeschooled \u003c\/em\u003eis 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stefan Merrill Block\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hanover Square Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781335000989\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/27\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMerrill Block, Stefan:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Stefan Merrill Block grew up in Plano, Texas. His first book, \u003cem\u003eThe Story of Forgetting\u003c\/em\u003e, was an international bestseller and the winner of Best First Fiction at the Rome International Festival of Literature, The Ovid Prize from the Romanian Writer''s Union, the 2008 Merck Serono Literature Prize and the 2009 Fiction Award from The Writers' League of Texas. \u003cem\u003eThe Story of Forgetting\u003c\/em\u003e was also a finalist for the debut fiction awards from IndieBound, Salon du Livre and The Center for Fiction. Stefan''s novels have been translated into ten languages, and his stories and essays have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker Page-Turner\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNPR's Radiolab\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eGRANTA\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and many other publications. He lives in upstate New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Stefan Merrill Block \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47566650048669,"sku":"9781335000989","price":47.37,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_01d8b2b8-9a10-4ef1-b6dc-b057870ed87f.jpg?v=1768314159","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/homeschooled-a-read-with-jenna-pick-a-memoir-9781335000989","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}