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Books
General Homeschooling
Bell, Debra. The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling. Tommy Nelson/Thomas Nelson, 1997.
This comprehensive volume presents homeschooling from a Christian world view.
Brostrom, David C. A Guide to Homeschooling for Librarians. Highsmith, 1995.
This guide is for librarians interested in providing library services for their growing numbers of homeschooling patrons; contains much basic information about homeschooling and extensive lists of resources.
Dobson, Linda. The Homeschooling Book of Answers. Prima, 1998.
Dobson, longtime columnist for Home Education Magazine, has collected answers from experienced homeschoolers throughout the country to the most commonly asked questions about homeschooling.
Farenga, Patrick. The Beginner’s Guide to Homeschooling. GWS Publications/ Holt, 1995.
This little booklet covers the basics of homeschooling, with information about finding resources and support.
Griffith, Mary. The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World as Your Child’s Classroom. Prima, 1998.
This book focuses specifically on unschooling, in the same friendly style as The Homeschooling Handbook.
Guterson, David. Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.
This is a favorite of many homeschoolers for skeptical relatives and friends. Guterson, a homeschooling dad and former high school teacher, talks about why people homeschool and how well it works and addresses some of the most common criticisms.
Hendrikson, Borg. Home School: Taking the First Step. Mountain Meadow, 1988.
This is a complete and relatively formal general guide to homeschooling, with especially thorough coverage of planning and record keeping, curriculum development, and teaching techniques.
Holt, John. Learning All the Time. Addison-Wesley, 1989.
Holt’s last book is about how children learn and how parents can help them without getting in their way.
Holt, John. Teach Your Own: A Hopeful Path for Education. Dell/Delta, 1988.
Teach Your Own was one of the first books advocating and explaining homeschooling and includes numerous personal accounts from early issues of Growing Without Schooling. More emphasis on the reasons for trying it than more recent homeschooling guides. Teach Your Own is out of print in the United States, although Holt Associates sometimes sells an abridged British edition.
Home Education Magazine. The Homeschool Reader. Home Education, 1995.
A wide-ranging collection of articles from ten years of Home Education Magazine; this book includes many articles on teaching and learning specific subjects, along with networking and personal experience.
Hood, Mary. The Relaxed Home School: A Family Production. Ambleside Educational, 1994.
This is an excellent book on less formal styles of homeschooling, from a Christian perspective.
Kaseman, Larry and Susan. Taking Charge through Homeschooling: Personal and Political Empowerment. Koshkonong, 1990.
This basic guide to homeschooling includes considerable discussion of its social and political implications and is recommended for anyone interested in the politics of homeschooling.
Moore, Raymond and Dorothy. The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook, Home Spun Schools, Home Style Learning, School Can Wait, Better Late Than Early, and other titles, all available from the Moore Foundation.
All the Moores’ books outline their approach to home education: delayed formal instruction, character building, family health and discipline, and so on.
Pedersen, Anne, and Peggy O’Mara. Schooling at Home. John Muir, 1990.
This excellent anthology from Mothering Magazine covers philosophies, methods, and legal issues from a wide variety of viewpoints.
Personal Accounts
Barker, Britt. Letters Home. Home Education, 1990.
In this little book, a sixteen-year-old homeschooler describes her adventures as she traveled and studied with several naturalists in the United States and Canada,