This Homeschooling Resource Guides bibliography page is one of several bibliographies on the Learn in Freedom™ site about homeschooling. Books listed here are resource guides for homeschoolers, listed by publication date (most recent first). Other books about homeschooling are listed on the separate Web pages
If you don't want such complete lists but would like an overview of the best books about all aspects of homeschooling, please see this site's Current and Choice Books on Homeschooling bibliography.
The first section of books on this page is books of general interest to most homeschoolers, with broad coverage of various resources. Below is a section of specialized resource guides.
The Complete Home Learning Sourcebook: The Essential Resource Guide for Homeschoolers, Parents, and Educators Covering Every Subject from Arithmetic to Zoology
Rebecca Rupp
(New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998)
(ISBN 0-609-80109-0).
US$29.95, xiii and 865 pages; index.
Bulky, comprehensive of learning resources, organized by subject,
a fitting sequel to the author's well-liked The Good Stuff.
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Mary Pride
(1999)
(ISBN 0-740300-07-5).
US$25.00
One volume of enormous four-volume successor to Mrs. Pride's earlier one-volume
Big Book of Home Learning and
Next Big Book of Home Learning, and the previous
four-volume Big Book of Home Learning
drawing on her years of reviewing homeschooling materials--with help from her large homeschooled family.
KMBowns(previous editions)
Mary Pride
(1999)
(ISBN 0-740300-08-3).
US$25.00
One volume of enormous four-volume successor to Mrs. Pride's earlier one-volume
Big Book of Home Learning and
Next Big Book of Home Learning, and the previous
four-volume Big Book of Home Learning
drawing on her years of reviewing homeschooling materials--with help from her large homeschooled family.
KMBowns(previous editions)
Mary Leppert and Michael Leppert
(Rocklin, CA: Prima, 2000)
(ISBN 0-7615-2014-7).
New compendium by the editor of the Link newspaper about homeschooling.
Edited by Theodore E. Wade, Jr.
(7th edition, 1998)
(ISBN 0-930192-36-2 [pbk]).
Illustrations, appendices (mostly resource guides), forms for keeping records, index.
Latest edition of a compendium of chapters by various authors, with introduction and additional comments by Wade.
Chapters by Virginia Birt Baker,
Ruth Beechick,
Christopher J. Klicka,
Kay Kuzma,
Jonathan Lindvall,
Brian Ray,
Cindy Short,
Sue Welch, and others.
Other contributing authors include Cathy Duffy,
Michael P. Farris,
Gayle Graham,
Gregg Harris,
Jessica Hulcy,
Raymond and Dorothy Moore,
Karl Reed,
J. Michael Smith,
and Jon Wartes.
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Trust the Children: A Manual and Activity Guide for Homeschooling and Alternative Learning
Anna Kealoha
(Berkeley, CA: Celestial Arts Publishing Company, 1995)
(ISBN: 0-89087-748-3).
US$ 17.95, xi and 274 pages; resource guide, bibliography, index, illustrations.
New activity and resource guide from a rather "new age" (not the author's term) perspective, with excerpts from earlier homeschooling publications included.
Includes guides for evaluating children's learning for parents who hate evaluations.
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Teaching and Learning at Home: A Curriculum Resource
Dorothy Burrows Johnson
(Cambridge, MA: Educators Pub. Service, 1995)
(ISBN: 0-83882248-7)
vii and 188 pages; bibliography.
OCLC
Home Education Guide
Donna R. Fisher, editor
(Washougal, WA: Hewitt Research Foundation, 3rd revised edition 1995)
(ISBN: 0-91371782-7).
US$25.00, vi and 258 pages; illustrations.
OCLC
Donn Reed
(Glassville, New Brunswick and Bridgewater, ME: Brook Farm Books, 2nd edition, revised 1994)
(ISBN 0-919761-26-7).
US$25.00, 298 pages; index.
Comprehensive discussion of the motives for homeschooling by a now deceased veteran homeschooler,
with thousands of resources,
a follow-up to the author's earlier The First Home-School Catalogue.
KMBowns(earlier edition)
Home Education Resource Guide: A Comprehensive Guide for the Parent-educator to Curriculums, Correspondence Schools . . .
Cheryl Gorder
(Mesa, AZ: Blue Bird Publishing, 4th edition, 1996)
(ISBN 0-933025-48-3).
176 pages.
Fourth edition of one of the earlier homeschooling resource guides.
Hundreds of addresses of organizations and companies related to homeschooling.
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The Handbook of Alternative Education
Jerry Mintz
(Macmillan, 1994)
431 pages.
Directory of alternative education resources, including homeschooling information
among information on Montessori, Waldorf, and other forms of alternative classroom schooling.
KMBseen_HCO
Homeschoolers and the Public Library: A Resource Guide for Libraries Serving Homeschoolers
Susan G. Scheps
(Chicago, IL: Public Library Association, c. 1993).
KMBseen_HCO
The Big Book of Home Learning
Mary Pride
(Westchester, IL: Crossway, 1990, 1991)
(ISBN 0-89107-548-8 [volume 1: Getting Started];
0-89107-549-6 [volume 2: Preschool and Elementary];
0-89107-550-X [volume 3: Teen & Adult];
0-89107-551-8 [volume 4: Afterschooling & Extras]).
Enormous four-volume successor to Mrs. Pride's earlier one-volume
Big Book of Home Learning and
Next Big Book of Home Learning,
drawing on her years of reviewing homeschooling materials--with help from her large homeschooled family.
KMBowns
A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another: and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the predominant power in the government, whether this be a monarch, a priesthood, an aristocracy, or the majority of the existing generation in proportion as it is efficient and successful, it establishes a despotism over the mind, leading by a natural tendency to one over the body.
John Stuart Mill On Liberty (1859)
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, revised 2nd edition 1997)
(ISBN 0-913677-13-2).
US$22.95, 408 pages; indexes.
Recent, comprehensive collection of learning resources, organized by subject.
KMBowns(earlier edition)
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