home schooling

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.

Offers parents considering homeschooling an overview of homeschooling and the demands it places on families, students, and parents, explores common myths about homeschooling, explains how parents can better relate to their children as students, and discusses how special needs students can benefit from homeschooling.

Ben and Elaine from "The Graduate" settle down to a quiet life in suburban Westchester to home-school their two sons, and when a crisis arises, bringing Mrs. Robinson back into the family's life, the couple attempt to shock her by inviting a family of hippies into their home.

Describes the accomplishments of eleven teenagers who are self-taught or home schooled and presents a case for home schooling.

Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his mother sends him to be home-schooled with a hostile blind girl, his divorced parents cannot stop fighting, and his grandmother is dying of emphysema.

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.