Booklist True Tales

Homeschooling Real Life

no image available	Llewellyn, Grace - Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go To School. Grace presents first-hand accounts showing the wide variety of worthwhile things teens can do if given the opportunity. Highly recommended for teenagers who are new to homeschooling--and their parents!
	Colfax, David and Micki - Homeschooling for Excellence. The first book about the family that educated their sons at their remote ranch in northern California and then sent three homeschooled sons to Harvard. The Colfaxes wrote a sequel to Homeschooling for Excellence: Hard Times in Paradise describing their challenges homesteading while in the midst of homeschooling.
	Guterson, David - Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense. Touting the importance of the family, this book is written by a high school English teacher who, with his wife, homeschools his three sons. Thought provoking observations about how we learn and societal ideas about institutional education.
	Leistico, Agnes - I Learn Better By Teaching Myself and Still Teaching Ourselves. (Sold in one or two volumes). A homeschooling story in which the mother moves from skepticism and resistance to trusting her children's interests. In Still Teaching Ourselves, Agnes broadens the scope of her family's learning to include high school, college, and the workplace.
	Albert, David H. - And the Skylark Sings with Me - Adventures in Homeschooling and Community-Based Education. Albert describes his family's life-affirming, joyful homeschool experience, and inspires the rest of us in the process.
	Dobson, Linda - Homeschoolers' Success Stories : 15 Adults and 12 Young People Share the Impact that Homeschooing Has Made on Their Lives.
	Lande, Nancy - Homeschooling: A Patchwork of Days. If you've ever wanted to be a "fly on the wall" to see what homeschooling is like in real families, this is the book for you. Follows a "typical" homeschooling day with 30 different families.
	Lande, Nancy - Homeschool Open House. Five years later, Lande revisits the homeschooling families interviewed in the Patchwork of Days book, and includes additional interviews, detailing many examples of the rich and varied ways homeschooling really happens, from America to Africa. Fifty five families share their successes and failures.
no image available	Wallace, Nancy - Better Than School: One Family's Declaration of Independence. The Wallace family story of how they started homeschooling.
no image available	Wallace, Nancy - Child's Work: Taking Children's Choices Seriously. A continuation of a story of a homeschooling family. This book is about how Nancy's children grew up and found work they loved.

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