Suggested Reading List –
Reference and How-To Books
Note: These books can be checked out from your
local public library through interlibrary loan. Ask your librarian about it.
Most are listed under the call number 649.68
Armstrong, Thomas, In Their Own Way.
Ballman, Ray, The How and Why of Home Schooling
Beechick, Ruth, You
Can Teach Your Child Successfully. Grades 4-8
Bell, Debra The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling
Bendt, Valerie, How to Create Your Own Unit Study
Boyer Rick, Home Educating with Confidence
Brady, Vicki A., The Basic Steps to Successful
Homeschooling Vital Issues Press
Cannon, Inge P., How To Present Home Education In
The Best Possible Light (Audio
Cassette Tape) PO Box 1350, Taylors, SC 29687, info@edplus.com
Colfax, David and Micki, Home-Schooling for
Excellence.
Davis, Llewellyn, Going Home to School
Dobson, James, Parenting Isn’t For Cowards.
Dobson, Linda, The Homeschooling Book of Answers:
The 88 Most Important Questions
Duffy, Cathy, The Christian Home Educator’s
Curriculum Manual - Elementary Vol. & Jr/Sr High
Dunn, Kenneth and Rita, Teaching: Students Through
Their Individual Learning Styles.
Elkind, David, The Hurried Child.
Farris, Michael P, Homeschooling: Father. An ideal book for homeschooling fathers.
Fugate, Richard, Successful Home Schooling
Gaither, Gloria and Shirley Dobson, Let’s Make a
Memory.
Gelner College Admissions: A Guide for
Homeschoolers
Gorder, Cheryl, Home Education Resource Guide
Griffith, Mary, The Homeschooling Handbook: For
Preschool to High School
Guterson, David, Family Matters: Why Homeschooling
Makes Sense
Harris, Greg, The Christian Home School.
Hendrickson, Borg, How to Write a Low Cost/ No Cost
Curriculum for Your Home-school Child
Hensley, Sharon, Home Schooling Children with
Special Needs
Herzog, Joyce, Learning In Spite Of Labels, Greenleaf Press
Holt, John, Teach Your Own.
Hubbs, Don, Home Education Resource Guide
Jeske, Patrick J., Bring Out the Best in Your
Child.
Klicka, Christopher., The Right Choice: The
Incredible Failure of Public Education and the Rising Hope of Home Schooling.
Lewellyn, Grace, Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who
Don’t Go to School
Lopez, Diane, Teaching Children. A guide to what children need to know at each level
through 6th grade.
McAlister & Oneschack, Homeschooling the High
Schooler - Vol. 1&2
McCullough, Bonnie, 401 Ways to Get Your Kids to
Work at Home.
McEwan, Elaine, How To Raise Reader.
MacCauley, Susan Schaeffer, For the Children’s
Sake.
Mason, Charlotte, The Original Home Schooling
Series
Moore, D. and Raymond, Home Spun Kids: Teaching
Children at Home
Pride, Mary, The Big Book of Home Learning.
Ray, Brian D. Ph.D., Strengths of Their Own, NHERI Publications, bray@nheri.org
Shackelford, Luanna and Susan White, A Survivor’s
Guide to Homeschooling.
Sutton, Joe. P. & Connie J., Strategies for
Struggling Learners, Exceptional
Diagnostics, 220 Douglas Dr., Simpsonville, SC 29681, suttonjp@juno.com
Tobias, Cynthia, The Way They Learn. Explains how to discover and teach to your child’s
strengths.
Trelease, Jim, The Read-Aloud Handbook.
Wade, Ted, The Home School Manual