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Recommended reading about homeschooling and related subjects
Works of fiction that feature homeschooling
Writing by homeschoolers

Recommended reading about homeschooling and related subjects

		Better Than School: One Family's Declaration of Independence
Homeschoolers' College Admissions Handbook	The Art of Education by Linda Dobson	Better Than School by Nancy Wallace	Child's Work by Nancy Wallace		Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
	The Homeschool Reader
Family Matters by David Guterson	The Homeschool Reader, Mark & Helen Hegener, eds.	The Homeschooling Book of Answers compiled by Linda Dobson	Homeschooling for Excellence by David & Micki Colfax		The Homeschooling Handbook by Mary Griffith
Homeschooling on a Shoestring by Melissa L. Morgan & Judith Waite Allee	How Children Fail by John Holt	How Children Learn by John Holt	Learning All the Time by John Holt		Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn
		Taking Charge Through Home Schooling: Personal and Political Empowerment
The Question is College by Herbert Kohl	A Sense of Self by Susannah Sheffer	Taking Charge through Homeschooling by M. Larry and Susan D. Kaseman	Teach Your Own by John Holt		The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn
Un-jobbing by Michael Fogler	The Unschooling Handbook by Mary Griffith	Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin	The Uncollege Alternative		The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child by Linda Dobson
	Playful Learning: An Alternate Approach to Preschool
From Homeschool to College and Work	Playful Learning by Anne Engelhardt	Home Learning Year by Year by Rebecca Rupp	Bear's Guide to Earning High School Diplomas Nontraditionally

Short list of the books above that have been known to convince people to homeschool:
• Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto
• Family Matters by David Guterson
• Teach Your Own by John Holt
• The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn

Works of fiction that feature homeschooling (or that feature kids not in school...)

Feed by M.T. Anderson	The Hideout by Peg Kehret	Into the Forest by Jean Hegland	Libby on Wednesday by Zilpha Keatley Snyder	Lone Wolf by Kristine L. Franklin
Monster of the Month Club
Monster of the Month club by Dian Curtis Regan	Moose Tracks by Mary Casanova	Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren	Skellig by David Almond	Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli
Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan	Golden Hour by Maiya Williams	Eloise by Kay Thompson	Heidi by Johanna Spyri	I Am a Home Schooler by Julie Voetberg
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott	Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers	Jess (American Girl Today) by Mary Casanova & Robert Papp	Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (this is a biography, not a work of fiction)	Ida B by Katherine Hannigan
Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild	The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner	The Railway Children by E. Nesbit	Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson	The Borrowers by Mary Norton
Schooled by Gordon Korman	Home School by Charles Webb

Writing by homeschoolers

Eragon by Christopher Paolini	Eldest by Christopher Paolini	My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell

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