Our goal is to make these books available through a library near you as part of our Homeschool Connections: Book by Book with Libraries initiative. We encourage you to check your local library to see which titles are currently available.

Note: Most of the resources listed below are available only in English. If you know of high-quality homeschooling resources in Spanish, we would appreciate your recommendations.

General Information

Websites

T'CHERs (The Caribbean Center of Home Education Resources)

A to Z Homeschool's Cool

Home Education Magazine (HEM)

National Home Education Network (NHEN)

American Homeschool Association (AHA)

About.com

Homeschool Diner (includes Spanish-language resources)

Recommended Books

David & Micki Colfax — Homeschooling for Excellence

Donn Reed — The Homeschool Source Book

Rebecca Rupp — Good Stuff: Learning Tools for All Ages

Jennifer Kaufeld — Homeschooling for Dummies

Tamra Orr — A Parent's Guide to Homeschooling

Preschool Through High School

Websites

Interview with Cafi Cohen

Early Years (Ages 2–6)

Grades 1–6

High School

Recommended Books

Samuel L. Blumenfeld — How to Tutor

Linda Dobson — Homeschooling the Early Years (Ages 3–8)

Shari Henry — Homeschooling the Middle Years (Ages 8–12)

Cafi Cohen — Homeschooling the Teen Years (Ages 13–18)

Rebecca Rupp — Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool through High School

Diana McAlister & Candice Oneschak — Homeschooling the High Schooler

Jeanne Gowen Dennis — Homeschooling High School: Planning Ahead for College Admission

Reading and Book Selection

Websites

A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling

About.com

Wikipedia – Great Books

The Great Books List

Recommended Books

Jim Trelease — The Read-Aloud Handbook

Joanne Oppenheim et al. — Choosing Books for Kids

Mortimer J. Adler & Charles Van Doren — How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

Perspectives on Education and Today's Schools

Websites

Learn in Freedom

John Taylor Gatto

John Holt – Growing Without Schooling

Thomas Armstrong – ADD Myth

Thomas Armstrong – Utopian Schools

Thomas Armstrong – Labels

Recommended Books

John Taylor Gatto — Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

John Holt — How Children Learn

John Holt — How Children Fail

James W. Loewen — Lies My Teacher Told Me

Diane Ravitch — The Language Police

Jonathan Zimmerman — Whose America? Culture Wars in the Public Schools

Thomas Armstrong — In Their Own Way

College

Websites

Interview with Cafi Cohen

Learn in Freedom – Colleges

Recommended Books

Cafi Cohen — And What About College? A Homeschoolers' College Admissions Handbook

John Bear & Mariah P. Bear — Bears' Guide to Earning College Degrees Nontraditionally

Record Keeping and Portfolios

Websites

A to Z Home's Cool – Portfolios

About.com

Recommended Books

Loretta Heuer — The Homeschooler's Guide to Portfolios and Transcripts