Books

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• Recommended reading about homeschooling and related subjects

• Works of fiction (and selected biographies) that feature homeschooling

• Writing by homeschoolers

Recommended reading about homeschooling and related subjects

The Art of Education by Linda Dobson	Bear's Guide to Earning High School Diplomas Nontraditionally	Better Than School by Nancy Wallace	Child's Work by Nancy Wallace
College Without High School	Dumbing Us Down by John Taylor Gatto	Family Matters by David Guterson	The First Year of Homeschooling Your Child by Linda Dobson
From Homeschool to College and Work	Get Out, Explore, and Have Fun by Lisa Rudy	Have Fun, Learn Stuff, Grow	Hold Onto Your Kids by Gordon Neufeld
	The Homeschool Reader
Home Learning Year by Year by Rebecca Rupp	The Homeschool Reader, Mark & Helen Hegener, eds.	Homeschoolers' College Admissions Handbook	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	I Learn Better By Teaching Myself	Learning All the Time by John Holt	Parent-Teen Breakthrough by Mira Kirshenbaum
Playful Learning: An Alternate Approach to Preschool by Anne Engelhardt	Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn	The Question is College by Herbert Kohl	A Sense of Self by Susannah Sheffer
Taking Charge through Homeschooling by Larry and Susan Kaseman	Teach Your Own by John Holt	The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn	The Uncollege Alternative
The Underground History of American Education	Un-jobbing by Michael Fogler	The Unschooling Handbook by Mary Griffith	Weapons of Mass Instruction by John Taylor Gatto
Your Money or Your Life by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin	Unschooling Rules	Better Than College by Blake Boles	I Don't Want to Go to College by Heather Hutchins
A Pair of Sparkly Sneakers by Nicole Olson

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

Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild	The Borrowers by Mary Norton	The Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner	David and the Phoenix
Delilah by John Bemelmans Marciano	Eloise by Kay Thompson	Feed by M.T. Anderson	Finn Family Moomintroll by Tove Jansson
Golden Hour by Maiya Williams	Heidi by Johanna Spyri	The Hideout by Peg Kehret	Home School by Charles Webb
I Am a Home Schooler by Julie Voetberg	Ida B by Katherine Hannigan	Into the Forest by Jean Hegland	Jess (American Girl Today) by Mary Casanova & Robert Papp
Libby on Wednesday by Zilpha Keatley Snyder	Little Women by Louisa May Alcott	Lone Wolf by Kristine L. Franklin	Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
Monster of the Month Club	Moose Tracks by Mary Casanova	My Side of the Mountain by Jean Craighead George	Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
The Railway Children by E. Nesbit	Schooled by Gordon Korman	The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett	Skellig by David Almond
Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli	Surviving the Applewhites by Stephanie S. Tolan	Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss	Thora: A Half-Mermaid Tale by Gillian Johnson
The Year I Didn't Go to School by Giselle Potter	Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin (this is a biography, not a work of fiction)	I, Emma Freke by Elizabeth Atkinson	The School Trip
My Name is Mina by David Almond	Liar & Spy by Rebecca Stead	Looking at Lincoln by Maira Kalman

Writing by homeschoolers

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