Kids
Getting Started
Real Home School by Kathy Banks
Encouraging book for first-timers. Answers doubts, discusses state regulations and offers suggestions for designing curriculum and teaching specific subjects.
The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling by Debra Bell
This extensive 2001 edition, complete with cd-rom, covers everything from curriculum resources for grade school through high school to academic contests and competitions. Also offers suggestions for utilizing the Internet in your home school, and discusses creative solutions to burnout.
The Guidance Manual for the Christian Home School by David Callihan
With the Christian worldview as a basis, the Callihans guide parents through the challenging prospect of preparing teens for college, career and beyond. Includes advice on long-range goals, the testing process, record-keeping and advanced study options.
The Homeschool Journey by Susan Card
An encouraging guide to those looking for inspiration in feeding their children’s hearts as well as their minds. Creativity, character and a love for the arts are given a priority in this alternative guide to home education.
The Homeschooling Book of Answers by Linda Dobson
In this comprehensive, thoughtful book, 88 of the most important questions are answered by some of homeschooling's most respected voices. Advice regarding legal issues, teaching tough subjects, juggling multiple students and surviving on one income. Solid, practical answers from leading experts will guide you through homeschooling's challenges.
The Beginner’s Guide to Homeschooling by Patrick Farenga
A concise and practical overview of what homeschooling is and how to get started. Contains valuable lists of resources for curriculum, correspondence schools, and educational materials. You will find support groups for the fifty states, as well as international organizations, and a listing of universities known to admit homeschoolers.
The Homeschooling Handbook by Mary Griffith
An up-to-the-minute manual for homeschooling families, and those just thinking about it. Practical tips cover everything from navigating the legal regulations and structuring the school day, to answering, “How much will all this cost?” Also discusses high school, record-keeping and how to avoid burnout. See also The Unschooling Handbook
The Homeschool Reader
A collection of articles from Home Education Magazine, that is recommended reading for families wishing to learn what homeschooling really is, from the experts – parents who homeschool. Detailed and complete, this guide covers everything from the "how's" and "why's" of homeschooling, to tailoring a curriculum and planning for college. More personal than dry statistics, this volume contains accounts from over thirty respected writers on socialization, curriculum and testing, and the exciting potential of homeschooling for both students and parents.
Trust The Children by Anna Kealoha
If you are looking for specific hands-on ideas for teaching your children, this book has them. An activity guide for homeschooling, it includes chapters on art appreciation, music education, handwriting, poetry and math. Touching on science, socialization, and the spiritual, this book has projects to inspire many years’ worth of learning.
Write Your Own Curriculum by Jennifer O’Leary
A basic guide to planning your own curriculum based on student and family interests. Also clarifies legal requirements for curriculum on a state-by-state basis.
Mary Pride’s Complete Guide to Getting Started in Homeschooling
Helps pinpoint the best teaching methods for your child, discover learning styles and teaching styles, know when to test, as well as teaching tricks that have been used with success.
The Big Book of Home Learning: Preschool and Elementary by Mary Pride
Getting Started on Home Learning by Rebecca Rupp
A concise, no-nonsense guide to navigating through the initial challenges of home-schooling. Includes information regarding state laws and choosing a curriculum, as well as answers to tough questions such as “Why should I homeschool?” and “How much will it cost?”
The Home School Manual by Theodore E. Wade
An all-inclusive handbook of help for homeschooling families from the beginner looking for direction to the experienced seeking inspiration. How to motivate, develop intelligence, teach gifted children and prepare for college are just a few of the many topics covered in this guide. Included is an extensive list of resources from curriculum to testing services.
Things We Wish We’d Known by Bill Waring
Fifty veteran homeschoolers share the things they wish they’d known.
Junior High and High School Help
Home School, High School and Beyond by Beverly L. Adams-Gordon
A time-management, career exploration and study skills course. A complete guide written for teens who are designing their own high school education. Discusses everything from packaged curriculum and independent study programs to free-form, individually directed curriculum. Includes planning a high school portfolio, establishing goals and record-keeping for college prep.
The Big Book of Home Learning: Junior High through College by Mary Pride
Information on getting ready for college, including SAT and ACT test preparation, reviews of educational products, inspirational vignettes, and teaching tips.
The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling by Debra Bell
This extensive 2001 edition, complete with cd-rom, covers everything from curriculum resources for grade school through high school to academic contests and competitions. Also offers suggestions for utilizing the Internet in your home school, and discusses creative solutions to burnout.
Educational Philosophy
The Future of Home Schooling: A New Direction for Christian Home Education by Michael Farris
Information on classical education, political involvement, resources, and more by the founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association.
The Unschooling Handbook by Mary Griffith
A discussion of the increasingly popular method of homeschooling called "unschooling". Griffith explains how you can stimulate and direct what your children are learning by using the whole world as your classroom. Included is advice on finding resources and adapting to individual student needs.
Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense by David Guterson
Written by a public high school teacher who homeschools his own children. Guterson presents both sides of the issue, and discusses the various ideologies in education today.
Taking Charge Through Home Schooling Personal and Political Empowerment by Larry M. Kaseman
A practical discussion of the power structure in education today, this book offers tips on dealing with the educational establishment from a legal and day-to-day perspective. Includes advice on overcoming the limitations and stresses of conventional schooling, dealing with public school officials and becoming an advocate for your children's education in your quest for homeschooling success.
Schooling at Home:Parents, Kids and Learning by Anne Pedersen
Mothering Magazine compiled this guide to homeschooling, offering suggestions from some of the most respected names in the movement. Included are thoughts on the nature of learning, the legal view, methodologies, curricula and the history of alternative education. Provides strategies for teaching difficult subjects and instilling the love of learning.
Beyond Survival: A Guide to Abundant-Life Homeschooling by Diana Waring
A realistic guide to a down-to-earth approach to homeschooling. Waring offers her own unique definition of education and shares her experience and advice on everything from creating a personal vision for a family educational blueprint, to teaching art, and finding the right resources and materials.
The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling by JessieWise
Revised and updated edition outlines the classical pattern of education called the trivium, which organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child’s mind and comprises three stages— “grammar stage,” “logic stage,” and “rhetoric stage.”
