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The Homeschool Liberation League

door Lucy Frank

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Thirteen-year-old Katya convinces her parents to try homeschooling her for a month, but while she is finally excited about learning--and about Milo, the violin prodigy who lives nearby--not everything works out as she had hoped.
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Finally. Finally!! A story involving homeschoolers who are not members of a cult. Ex-members of a cult. Raised by ex-hippies. Raised by nouveau hippies. Complete social outcasts with no social skills whatsoever. And....it's a GOOD story on top of that!

Kaity (or Katya, as she now prefers to be called) has had a wonderful summer. Summer camp was wonderful. Summer camp was all about science. Summer camp was everything she dreamed it would be and more. But now she has a problem. It's time to go back to school - and she doesn't want to. School has suddenly become unbearably petty, boring, and generally miserable and she's not proud of her behavior towards her teachers. Why can't school be like summer camp? Why can't learning be exciting and, well, interesting?

But Katya has a plan. She's met this really cool boy who turns out to be homeschooled. Homeschooling? That would be perfect! It would be just like summer camp. But when Katya finally convinces her parents she's truly miserable at school and homeschooling is a good idea, their version of homeschooling doesn't match up with what she had in mind. Sometimes, she's not even sure what she wants, but she knows it's not school.

Ah, where to begin. First, the characters. No flat stereotypes here! Katya's friends, both schooled and non-schooled, are layered, realistic middle-schoolers. Katya herself is no plaster saint; she acts out and regrets it, but can't seem to stop doing stupid things. She's not always as studious as she plans to be, and she's not a genius, just an average girl with a passionate interest in the world around her.

And, as mentioned before, no homeschooling stereotypes. {Seriously, if you can name me one other book that has managed this, I will....well, I'll stop telling people how much I hate Stargirl. And mouthing off about why Cammie Morgan (of the Gallagher Girls) would pass for no homeschooler I've ever met, including myself}. There's no perfect ending here; Katya's parents will always be "school people" and what she gets isn't exactly what she wants. But she (and her friends) all get workable compromises at the end and come to a point where they're happy with what they're getting.

Then there's reality; does homeschooling work for everyone? No. Would some kids prefer to be in school? Of course. Do kids ask to be homeschooled because they want a better education? I knew at least two - and that's not counting those who visited a "real" school classroom and decided what they had at home was infinitely better. Are there lots of options? As Katya discovers, yes! Lucy Frank obviously did her homework.

On top of all this, it's definitely a page-turner. Katya's increasingly convoluted lies, issues with her friends, and struggle to get the education she needs and wants never descend into didacticism or predictability. It's definitely popular at my library - we've only had it a month and it's circulating briskly.

Verdict: Add this - and Grace Llewellyn's Teenage Liberation Handbook - to your library collections for those teens who'd like to think a bit more deeply about their education and what they want to do with their life. Or just want a good story to enjoy.

ISBN: 0803732309; Published July 2009 by Dial; Borrowed from the library; Purchased for the library
  JeanLittleLibrary | Dec 30, 2011 |
Katya who has recently changed her name and refuses to go another day to school convinces her parents that she wants to pursue her own education. She has her own ideas of schooling and her parents and she come to grips about what is right for her. Mom operates a beauty salon and expects Katya to help out there. She's embarrassed by it, hates the smells, is afraid she run into towns people she no longer wants to see. Fortunatey in helping with an elderly client she learns about diabetes, and finds herself consulting him about scientific matters. Together they are instrumental in saving a beaver pinned to the ground from a felled tree. Feeling frustrated by her mother, she comes to see that her mother is doing well by her business and although their interest vary she and her mother are very much the same in their desires for independence and to do things their own way.TThe Homeschool Liberation League is about "being where you need to be...doing what it takes... so that your curiosity and imagination stay alive and your mind can breathe." ( )
  MarthaL | May 15, 2010 |
Reviewed by Kira M for TeensReadToo.com

After spending a great summer at Wilderness Discovery Camp, thirteen-year-old Katya doesn't want to go back to school and will do anything to avoid returning. She convinces her parents to try homeschooling for one month.

Homeschooling, she thinks, will allow her to explore what she wants to learn about. She even meets a cute boy named Milo and starts dating him. Best of all, she doesn't have to set foot in a stuffy school and learn what she's forced to study.

Her parents, however, have different ideas of what her education should entail. Instead of exploring science and nature out where it counts, she's stuck in her mom's beauty shop studying in front of the DIM (Daily Instructional Matrix).

With the help of a mysterious new friend and Milo, she forms the Homeschool Liberation League to help her parents see her idea of education. Will Katya convince her parents that she deserves to learn how she learns best? Will Katya get to stay homeschooled or will she have to go back to public school?

A funny, unique approach to seeing education through a teen's point of view. The author does a great job of creating engaging characters whose emotions and struggles seem to capture what being a teen is like. Readers will have an easy time relating to Katya and will enjoy reading this story cover to cover. ( )
  GeniusJen | Jan 14, 2010 |
The Homeschool Liberation League is about educational choices. The story follows 13 year old Katya, formerly Kaitlyn. On the first day of eighth grade, Katya decides to turn around and head home. She spends the rest of the day researching and writing up a proposal of why her parents should allow her to homeschool. Eventually they decide to give it a try, but their idea of homeschooling turns out to be a far cry from what Katya expected of the experience.

I enjoyed the book for many reasons. First, it does not belittle any form of educational experience, but acknowledges that everyone needs to find the model that works best for them and their family. The setting was close to home, so I recognized it on a local level. I did find myself wondering if Katya's parents would have been so easy to convince to homeschool if they had been from New York, where rules are rather complicated, rather than Connecticut, where all you need to do is file an intent to homeschool. There was quite a bit of angst between the teenagers and their parents which grated and at times slowed the story for me. As a parent who has always homeschooled, I was able to relate to the anxieties of Katya's parents, but did not always understand the logic of choices, other than to create more conflict for the story.

Although it was not exactly what I would have preferred for Katya and her friends, I was satisfied with the ending. I felt that the story presented a fair and balanced view of all of the options available for education today, if parents would be open to these opportunities. ( )
1 stem jugglingpaynes | Sep 2, 2009 |
Anyone who's ever been to middle school has, at least once, felt the dread of waking up in the morning, knowing it won't be long before you walk through the front doors of a prison-esque humiliatorium designed to stupefy and bore. Kaitlyn - now calling herself "Katya" - has had enough. This will be the year she escapes the dull classes of MVB Middle School (which have lead her to some, er, creative trouble-making). Inspired by her wilderness camp experience with homeschooled friend Rosie and mentor Dmitri (who coined her new Katya moniker), she is going to design her own coursework, à la her summer at wilderness camp. Her parents need convincing, though - school is not camp, and their idea of homeschooling is just as rigid as MVB! When Katya meets a homeschooled boy (a very cute, very talented homeschooled boy named Milo) who would give anything to live a normal life at a regular high school, she starts to reconsider her angle. With the help of her new friend Francesca and new crush Milo, Katya stumbles into the Homeschool Liberation League. This sweet, funny novel, while not terribly plot-driven, makes for great summer reading, and will surely inspire many teens to discover a Homeschool Liberation League of their own. ( )
  EKAnderson | Jul 4, 2009 |
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Thirteen-year-old Katya convinces her parents to try homeschooling her for a month, but while she is finally excited about learning--and about Milo, the violin prodigy who lives nearby--not everything works out as she had hoped.

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