home schooling

A collection of essays that provide varying perspectives on issues regarding homeschooling, and discusses reasons for parents to choose homeschooling, the benefits of educating children in the home, regulations and monitoring, resources available to homeschooled children, and more.

An activity book for preschool children which contains directions of recipes for 100 activities to be used as learning experiences.

Thirteen-year-old Katya convinces her parents to try homeschooling her for a month, but while she is finally excited about learning--and about Milo, the violin prodigy who lives nearby--not everything works out as she had hoped.

A practical guide that shows parents how to teach the basic skills of counting, addition, subtraction, fractions, and word problems to their first and second-graders.

Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.

A collection of essays examining the controversy surrounding home schooling, the reasons many parents are deciding to home school their children, the benefits and drawbacks of home schooling, and other related topics.

As fifteen-year-old Kit does chores on her family's Vermont farm, she puzzles over her mother's apparent unhappiness, complains about being homeschooled after a minor incident at school, and strives to communicate just how important dance is to her.

Describes the experiences of an eight-year-old girl and her family who are educating their children at home.

Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.

Presents sixteen essays that examine issues related to home schooling, written by supporters and detractors.