nellebelle

I've read Skellig and Stargirl with my daughters.

Stargirl had such extreme caricatures of both the homeschooled and the
schooled kids. I think part of the point was to make people think about
teenage conformity and non-comformity.

Skellig is just... very interesting! I cried at parts of it.

I belong to an adult book club. We read a children's book about once a
year, and have discussed both Harry Potter and Stargirl there. We read Snow
Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson, who also wrote a homeschooling book
called Family Matters. Anyway, I later heard that Snow Falling on Cedars
was banned in a Texas high school because of the sex in it and my first
thought was what sex? Then I remembered that there were a couple of minor
sex scenes, but they were such a small part of the story and both took place
between willing partners who really cared for each other. They just didn't
stand out to me in my reading of the story. It is an excellent book by the
way, and deals with Japenese internment in America during WWII and takes
place in the San Juan Islands on America's and Canada's West Coasts. One
of women in my book club commented that when she was a teen, she went out of
her way to read banned books. She wanted to see what they were trying to
keep from her.

Mary Ellen