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Award-winning Author’s Memoir Chronicles How and Why She Homeschooled Her Daughter
Homeschooling Abbey, by prize-winning novelist Carol Plum-Ucci, offers a personal look at the positive aspects of homeschooling
ABSECON, N.J. -- December 2, 2008 -- Homeschooling Abbey: Your Basic Mom Tries Home Education and Tells All, a memoir by Carol Plum-Ucci, seeks to reveal how the author and her daughter found a whole new world through homeschooling.
Plum-Ucci never thought she would homeschool. She believed that home education was for geniuses or religious fanatics, but when her daughter, Abbey, was having problems in school and was spending way too much time with the school nurse, Plum-Ucci made a decision to try it.
Plum-Ucci soon discovered that the world was her classroom. Through trial and error, she and her daughter found Abbey’s perfect learning style, and Plum-Ucci soon realized that her own mind was also coming alive. For spelling and vocabulary, she used Scrabble, for math, the game of Yahtzee offered plenty of practice with numbers and concepts. To ensure that Abbey had lots of peers, Plum-Ucci found another group of homeschooled kids and made sure that her daughter also enjoyed extracurricular activities with other children.
A successful author of young adult novels, Plum-Ucci intends her memoir to be more of a literary read than a how-to manual. Aiming to offer compelling arguments for homeschooling, Plum-Ucci gives personal answers to the questions many contemplating homeschooling ask: Will my child test well? Will my child be too different from other kids? Is it too much work to homeschool? While she recognizes that homeschooling is not for everyone, she strives to offer an insider’s glimpse for readers who might be frustrated with public education and want creative alternatives.
For more information or to request a free review copy, members of the press can contact the author at plumucci@aol.com. Homeschooling Abbey is available for sale online at Amazon.com, BookSurge.com, and through additional wholesale and retail channels worldwide.
About the Author
Carol Plum-Ucci has published five young adult suspense novels from Harcourt. The recipient of seven citations from the American Library Association, including the Michael L. Printz Honor Book Award, she was twice named a recipient of a Best Books for Young Adults award and has twice been an Edgar Allan Poe finalist. Her novel, The Body of Christopher Creed, was optioned by Dreamworks. She is also the author of What Happened to Lani Garver, The She, The Night My Sister Went Missing and Streams of Babel.
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