Discarded Books, Unbroken Spirit: A Homeschooler’s Journey to Freedom

Back in the 1990s, I was a book-hungry homeschool kid growing up in Texas. Every year, the Houston Library held a massive book discard sale - thousands of volumes, all stamped “Discard,” waiting to be rescued. Homeschool families prepared for the trek and came prepared with wagons and boxes, ready to stock up. This was before the internet was such a big deal, so these sales were goldmines, literary treasures.