Posted in Homeschooling in Literature and Film, tagged Beth Kephart, icosahedron, Johannes Kepler, Pennsylvania, You Are My Only, young adult fiction on March 12, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
This post briefly reviews Beth Kephart’s young adult novel You Are My Only
Kephart is an award-winning author of 13 young adult titles as well as lots of poetry, essays, and reviews. This, her latest book, is up for review here because of its use of homeschooling as a plot point. (more…)
Posted in Homeschooling in Literature and Film, tagged Alice MacLeod, British Columbia, Canada, Canadian literature, children's literature, CTV, Deschooling, Ivan Illich, John Holt, Miss Smithers, Susan Juby, unschooling, young adult fiction on December 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This post continues my exploration of recent children’s lit employing homeschooling themes with a review of the young adult fiction trilogy of Susan Juby, whose comedic heroine is Alice MacLeod, a sarcastic and disaffected teen who was homeschooled until age fifteen. The books, with their American publication date, are as follows:
Alice, I Think
Miss Smithers
Alice MacLeod, Realist at Last
My book Homeschool: An American History
is the first scholarly book-length treatment of its theme. It is available for purchase
from Amazon.