Books about children who homeschool? - Page 7

[pookel]

Originally Posted by mariamaroo

I am also looking for books for a 4-6 year that talk about secular homeschooling and present it specifically as a normal choice, and it seems from reading this thread and browsing amazon that there's a serious lack!

Yeah, I just came to this thread to look for that, and I don't see anything helpful yet. Maybe I should write one. Is it that exotic an idea to have a picture book for 4yos about how their friends are going to school next year and they're not?

[Embee]

Hey all,

DS and I read a wonderful picture book last night. I wanted to share the information with you all as I know a lot of you (like me! ) are always hoping to find more (and better!) literature on home schooling characters.

What To Do About Alice?"
by Barbara Kerley Ill. by Edwin Fotheringham

It's a true biography about Alice Roosevelt--smart and colorful daughter of President Teddy Roosevelt--done in picture book style. The text is full, engaging and intelligent and the pictures are a lot of fun also. We found a copy on the "new" shelves of our local library. I was happy to know a bit about Alice, enough to know I should take a peak at the book. I (we) weren't disappointed.

DS proclaimed Alice, "Super Cool!"

The best,
Em

[frenchie]

What a wonderful thread!! This is our first year homeschooling. DS is a Kindergartener. He has asked about a B&M school, because so many of his park friends started K this year too. They all go to our local schools. The other day, DH & DS were driving past a school. The kids were just getting out. DS asked what they were doing, and DH explained. After hearing about sitting in a classroom at a desk, with no freedom to move about, no freedom to play when he's feeling burned out, no freedom to have a snack when he wants to, no freedom to get his "wiggies" out (without being reprimanded for being disruptive)....DS responded, "that sounds very boring. I'm glad I have school at home."
On his official first day of school, I took him to the front door and pretended to mount a scooter and put on a helmet. DH walked DS over to my "scooter", and put his "helmet" on him. He gave him a HUGE hug and told him to have fun at school...he acted emotional at the sight of seeing his son go off to school for the first time. DS laughed the whole way. We drove our scooter to our "school" (a spare room I set up as our "discovery" room) It's a quiet place we can go to get away from his rambunctious sissy, and learn new things....but I digress.
I'm so thankful that you mommas have posted such a great thread. I know DS will be excited to have books that talk about homeschooling, or about adventurous kids that are HS'd.
Thanks mommas!

[anywaybecause]

Thanks for starting this thread, and thanks to all who have posted. I've been cutting and pasting all the titles into a Word doc, and it's two pages long, with no repeats! Thank to everyone for so many suggestions.

[Nanu]

for older kids - Maximum Ride

OK, Max and her pals aren't exactly homeschooled.... they're more like unschooled. They're human-birds mutant who escaped from a lab and live in hiding as young children. They educate themselves using the Internet. They're smart and creative but have terrible spelling skills! Hahahaha

This is a good series for young teens especially. It takes a positive view toward young people and their ability to make a difference in the world, choose right over wrong, etc.

[Momma Aimee]

THANKS

so many books to add to my wish list

Aimee::

[greenthumb3]

Here's a brand new one:

http://homeschooladventurebooks.com/

written by Rain Fordyce.

[jspea]

How Tom Beat Captain Najork and His Hired Sportsmen

It's a true must-have. A fantastic collaboration of Russell Hoban's (A Bargain for Frances) uniquely honest child-perspective storytelling and Quentin Blake's whimsical illustrations, "How Tom..." is the perfect unschooling tale for all ages!
Tom is always fooling around and doing the sorts of things that look too much like playing to his aunt Fidget Wonkham-Strong. He can't seem to stop, in fact, and do something useful, despite obediently "learning off" assignments in the Nautical Almanac. The threatened team of Cpt. Najork and Sportsmen is called upon to teach Tom a lesson, but all of the challenges strongly resemble just the sort of messing about that Tom is used to, and he beats them (soundly) at their own games....
Love, love, love this one! It keeps getting reprinted and quickly sold out, so try your library if it's gone from Amazon. (Don't pay the crazy vintage/collector price on ebay, etc. You WILL wear it out if it's in yr home library with 4 - 12 yos in residence, especially. Enjoy!
Living and learning!
j

[Dakota's Mom]

I Am Learning All The Time

This is too funny. I just read the last post when I came on here to post about this wonderful new book that we just got. I can't believe Rain is on here posting about it. My son loves it. I think it has a great blend of kids who homeschool and kids who building school. But it does not make one look better than the other. Both have good points about them. Anyway, if you haven't had a chance to get this book, please do. Your kids will love it. I bought a dozen for our homeschool group and everyone who has received theirs has loved it. Great book and great author.

Kathi

[Annapooh]

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[Jackpackbaby]

What a fantastic compilation! Thank you all so much.:

[Needle in the Hay]

DS recently received:
Dear Pirate, the Buried Treasure Mystery (Postcard Mysteries) by Carole Marsh

It's about a brother and sister, a bit like the Magic Tree House but the kids are homeschooled (their homeschool club does a postcard exchange).

ETA: there is no religious content in this book and it doesn't seem like a super structured school-at-home family, more like relaxed eclectic probably. The only part of this particular book (we haven't yet read others in the series) where the kids have to "do school" is when, after having received some postcards from a pirate, their mother starts talking to them in pirate lingo and gives them a sheet of pirate vocabulary words to match up with their definitions.

[Momma Aimee]

Originally Posted by anywaybecause

Thanks for starting this thread, and thanks to all who have posted. I've been cutting and pasting all the titles into a Word doc, and it's two pages long, with no repeats! Thank to everyone for so many suggestions.

ehy how about copying and paesting that into a post -- a nice little Summary -- so i can steal it from you

Aimee

[Dakota's Mom]

I wish that when someone posts books on here that you would also leave a little fyi about religious content. I hate it when I buy a book that sounds really good and then find that it is full of religious stuff. I would rather know up front what the content is.

thanks,
Kathi

[Lenore K.]

I agree with Aimee and Kathi:

Anyone posting a list? I just joined and haven't had time to go back and read through them all yet.

I would also like a forewarning of religious content when books are referred.

I just ordered two copies of I Am Learning All The Time. One is for us and one is to donate to our local library.

Thanks for all the tips, folks!

Lenore
Mother of Three Adults and One 5 Year Old in May

[ocelotmom]

Doesn't the family in Where The Red Fern Grows homeschool? It is, in the end, presented as a necessity, with public schooling being a more ideal option, but that's certainly not the focus of the book.

As a middle schooler, I loved a book by Kathryn Lasky called Double Trouble Squared, in which a family pulls their kids out of school to go to London for a year. They do bring along a public school teacher to do the teaching, though. It's a series now. I wasn't as enthralled with the second book as I was with the first, but I may have just been too old for it by the time it came out. I haven't read the third (or further?) book.

[Hathersage]

Freya and Heath are Home educated (for preschoolers, no religious content, UK Children)

http://www.lulu.com/content/563010


And the followup the Genie and the Teapot
http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Hom...5209062&sr=8-1

[rsps]

I saw a new book at Barnes and Noble that looked like it might be good
"The Homeschool Liberation League"
http://tinyurl.com/l6pny3

[Proxi]

Has anyone read Schooled by Gordon Korman? From what I read on the description, it isn't about homeschooling really (more about a homeschooled kid being forced to go back to public school) and it doesn't sound like it describes your typical homeschooler (protagonist was raised on a commune by his grandmother), but looked promising as a funny read. Any thoughts?

[Dakota's Mom]

Schooled is so funny. I loved reading it and then I read it again. What a wonderful story. Of course it appealed to the old hippie in me as well as the homeschooler. Highly recommend this book.

Kathi