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.
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.
