Recommended Links and Books
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)
National Home Education Network (NHEN)
American Homeschool Association (AHA)
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
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
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
John Holt – Growing Without Schooling
Thomas Armstrong – Utopian Schools
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
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
Recommended Books
Loretta Heuer — The Homeschooler's Guide to Portfolios and Transcripts
