A Good Start: The Less-than-$150 Homeschooling Collection

Many librarians I speak to tell me that they don’t have much money to devote to serving homeschoolers and feel overwhelmed trying to figure out where to start. With that in mind, I offer you my Less-than-$150 Homeschooling Collection. These are books that span a wide variety of homeschooling needs and should circulate and prove [...]

For the Love of Literature by Maureen Wittmann

Wittmann, Maureen. For the Love of Literature: Teaching Core Subjects with Literature. La Grange, KY: Ecce Homo Press, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-9797609-9-7. (Available from Ecce Homo Press and Amazon.)
I know Maureen through cyberspace. I put her on my blogroll early in the process of researching and writing Helping Homeschoolers in the Library. I interviewed her here, [...]

NYLA Presentation: Powerpoint and Some of the Titles I Mentioned (With Links!)

In case any of you are interested, here is the PowerPoint I used in my presentation:
Helping Homeschoolers in the Library PowerPoint
Here are some of the titles I remember mentioning:

100 Top Picks for Homeschool Curriculum by Cathy Duffy
Pagan Homeschooling by Kristin Madden
I also mentioned books by Maureen Wittmann. I’ll be posting info on her newest title [...]

Carschooling by Diane Flynn Keith

Keith, Diane Flynn. Carschooling: Over 350 Entertaining Games & Activities to Turn Travel Time into Learning Time. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2002.
Homeschooling mom, writer, and lecturer Diane Flynn Keith has decided that the hours families clock in the car shouldn’t be wasted ones. To this end, she lectures, has written a book, and maintains [...]

The Ultimate Homeschool Physical Education Game Book by Guy Bailey

Bailey, Guy. The Ultimate Homeschool Physical Education Game Book. Camas, WA: Educators Press, 2003.
To a non-athlete such as myself, teaching physical education in a homeschool setting has always seemed like a no-brainer: it’s easy enough to tell the kids to go outside and play or enroll them in something along the lines of a soccer [...]

Homeschoolers’ College Admissions Handbook by Cafi Cohen

Cohen, Cafi. Homeschoolers’ College Admissions Handbook: Preparing 12- to 18-Year Olds for Success in the College of Their Choice. Roseville, CA: Prima Publishing, 2000.
Homeschoolers and those interested in homeschooling have a lot of questions about college: Will homeschooled kids be able to get in? What do they do about a transcript? What about the SATs? [...]

The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas by Linda Dobson

Dobson, Linda. The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas: 500+ Fun and Creative Learning Activities for Kids Ages 3-12. Roseville, CA: Prima Publishing, 2002.
In The Ultimate Book of Homeschooling Ideas: 500+ Fun and Creative Learning Activities for Kids Ages 3-12, Linda Dobson offers readers a compendium of ideas and activities she compiled from homeschoolers worldwide. Chapters [...]

Homeschooling at Random House

From the earliest days of the movement, homeschooling publications have largely been published by enterprising parents, small presses, and specialty publishers. This can make acquiring titles extremely difficult. Take, for example, Write Your Own Curriculum: A Complete Guide to Planning, Organizing and Documenting Homeschool Curriculums by Jenifer O’Leary, published by Whole Life Publishing, which, as [...]

The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook by Raymond and Dorothy Moore

Moore, Raymond, and Dorothy Moore. The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook: A Creative and Stress-Free Approach to Homeschooling. Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1994.
Researchers and educators Raymond and Dorothy Moore played an important part in popularizing homeschooling in the 1970s and ‘80s, particularly among conservative Protestants. Their star has faded in the homeschooling world, but their contribution [...]

Creative Communications by Sandra Garant

“Most of us should be able to find enough reasonable motivation to write or use other communication skills every day. We all have responsibilities we need to remember, relationships we want to keep, problems we ought to resolve, interests we would like to explore, and celebrations in which we enjoy participating. These are meaningful and [...]