Tips for teens wanting to take charge of their own education and for anyone interested in the practice of home schooling or "unschooling".

There's nothing worse than peaking in high school. Nobody knows that better than Josie Pie. She was kind of a big deal?she dropped out of high school to be a star! But the bigger you are, the harder you fall. And Josie fell. Hard. Ouch. Broadway dream: dead. Meanwhile, her life keeps imploding. Best friend: distant. Boyfriend: busy. Mom: not playing with a full deck? Desperate to escape, Josie gets into reading. Literally. She reads a book and suddenly...

After dropping out of college, nineteen-year-old Laurel Early returns to her uncle's tobacco farm, where she encounters a monster as well as her mother's ghost, and soon Laureal realizes that she must tap into her own innate magic to save everyone she loves.

After achieving satisfactorily for several years, sioux Indian students tend to show a reversal of this process and begin a steady decline in academic achievement. To study this problem, an experimental group was selected which included the following oglala sioux youngsters--(1) 164 eighth grade students from seven elementary schools, and (2) 159 ninth grade students from the two high schools on pine ridge reservation. The control group contained...

In the early 1960's, 16-year-old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in a London suburb. She is smart, pretty, and working toward her goal of being accepted into Oxford. Her life will take a big turn when she meets David, a man twice her age. Now she must decide if she will pursue an education at Oxford, or if she will choose to learn all that a charismatic, older man can teach her.