 | The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, Revised and Updated Edition by Susan Wise Bauer
Buy new: $26.37 / Used from: $20.98 Excellent reource for those seeking academic rigor on a do-able scale.
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 | A Charlotte Mason Companion: Personal Reflections on the Gentle Art of Learning by Karen Andreola
Buy new: $13.59 / Used from: $10.50 One of my all time favorite non-fiction books. So helpful!!
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 | Pocketful of Pinecones: Nature Study With the Gentle Art of Learning : A Story for Mother Culture by Karen Andreola
Buy new: $15.25 / Used from: $9.78 Contrived but still recommended for its insights into CM-style teaching.
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 | Marva Collins' Way: Updated by Marva Collins
Buy new: $10.36 / Used from: $1.94 This book, and Ms Collins story, made me first think I'd teach my own children.
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 | Homeschooling for Excellence by David Colfax
Buy new: $15.29 / Used from: $0.01 Who argues with Harvard admission?? It just plain works!
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 | Christian Unschooling : Growing Your Children in the Freedom of Christ by Teri J. Brown
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $9.48 Read this before buying a curriculum in a box...your kids will thank you!
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 | Real-Life Homeschooling: The Stories of 21 Families Who Teach Their Children at Home by Rhonda Barfield
Buy new: $12.60 / Used from: $0.01 Great real-life examples of "how-to"
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 | What Your Third Grader Needs to Know (Revised Edition): Fundamentals of a Good Third-Grade Education (Core Knowledge Series) by E.D. Jr Hirsch
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $3.65 This series should be given to every parent upon birth of the first child. Excellent.
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 | Home-Style Teaching: A Handbook for Parents and Teachers by Raymond Moore
Buy used from: $0.01 Wisdom from some of the pioneers.
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 | Home Grown Kids by Raymond Moore
Buy used from: $0.01 More wisdom from the pioneers....
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 | Summerhill School: A New View of Childhood by A. S. Neill
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.00 How the Giant tried to restore childhood.....
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 | Laughing Allegra: The Inspiring Story of a Mother's Struggle and Triumph Raising a Daughter with Learning Disabilities by Anne Ford
Buy new: $12.71 / Used from: $3.95 Not really homeschool, but still helped with my decision.....
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 | Honey for a Child's Heart by Gladys Hunt
Buy new: $10.39 / Used from: $6.62 If you are not a librarian this can really help you pick books.
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 | The Read-Aloud Handbook: Fifth Edition (Read-Aloud Handbook) by Jim Trelease
Buy used from: $0.01 Another helpful title for choosing books.
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 | Family Math (Equals Series) by Jean Kerr Stenmark
Buy new: $19.55 / Used from: $4.50 This and Family Math II should also be given at birth......
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 | Fun Projects For Hands-On Character Building by Rick Boyer
Buy used from: $5.75 Lots of great ideas here, from yet another Homeschool pioneer.
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| American Tall Tales
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $10.02 Every family should have lots of Jim Weiss cds.....
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 | The Little Princesses: The Story of the Queen's Childhood by her Nanny, Marion Crawford by Marion Crawford
Buy used from: $1.99 Not her Nanny!! Goodness...How Queen Elizabeth II was homeschooled.
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 | The Magic School Bus Plants Seeds: A Book About How Living Things Grow (Magic School Bus) by Joanna Cole
Buy new: $3.50 / Used from: $0.01 How can you hope kids will like science without these??
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 | The Berenstain Bears and the Truth (First Time Books(R)) by Stan Berenstain
Buy new: $3.25 / Used from: $0.01 Who needs a character education curriculum? Use the Bears first and save time!
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 | The Latin-Centered Curriculum
Buy used from: $41.24 Good new book.
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 | How Math Works (How It Works) by Carol Vorderman
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $8.61 The whole "how it works" series is excellent
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 | Handbook of Nature Study by Anna Botsford Comstock
Buy new: $23.40 / Used from: $19.39 If you can only add one "afterschooling" project, this book is it!
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 | Charlotte Mason's Original Homeschooling Series by Charlotte Mason
Buy new: $42.44 / Used from: $29.99 The original. Don't settle for imitations.
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 | The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education by Grace Llewellyn
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $7.99 Best "radical" book by far
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 | Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder by Richard Louv
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $8.89 Must reading for any parent--even more so if you favor Charlotte Mason inspired homeschooling. You will see, once again, just how "right" she was.
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