Books about children who homeschool? - Page 8

[ocelotmom]

The Homeschool Liberation League by Lucy Frank is a relatively new young teen fiction book about a middle schooler who decides she wants to go from public schooling to unschooling.

[CoolMomNC]

Lousa May Alcott books about homeschoolers

This is a fun forum.

In Little Women, by L.M. Alcott, only Amy, the youngest, goes to school. The oldest sister works as a governess, the second sister works as a companion to her aunt and reads to educate herself, and the third sister does "lessons" at home. Their neighbor, Laurie, has a tutor.

In Eight Cousins, the main character, Rose, is educated at home.

In An Old-Fashioned Girl, the two girls, Polly and Fannie, don't attend school.

Little Men is about a very unconventional school, and is very critical of typical schools of the day.

The author experienced a mix of school and home education. Her father, Bronson Alcott, ran an unconventional school for a short time, but the children seem to have been primarily educated at home. One of Bronson's best friends was Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Louisa had free rein in his library. Other important figures in Concord, MA at the time were also frequent guests, such as Henry David Thoreau.

[Dakota's Mom]

I recently came across a website that reviews books. They review books about homeschoolers and books by homeschoolers. It's worth looking at.

Kathi

[Dakota's Mom]

This sounds really great. I have seen the Wright On Time books and plan to look at them more closely. It is so important for our kids to have books that do not involve helping them get ready to go to school or dealing with all the problems that occur at school. But a lot of the homeschool books that I find have a very religious basis. Not all homeschoolers are religious or at least are not christian. It would be good to find books that are about homeschoolers and do not have a christian viewpoint.

The site I mentioned a couple of posts back reviews books by homeschoolers and books about homeschoolers. The teen son of a friend of mine has just submitted his first book to the site for review. Terror of Porridge is written for 6 to 10 year olds and can be found through lulu.com. I have not read it yet, but I want to order it soon. Maybe for a holiday gift for my 8 year old.

Kathi

[SundayCrepes]

Has anyone read And Then Mama Said...It Takes Time to Learn to Read
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/193...=ATVPDKIKX0DER

[Gem0406]

I searched this thread and didn't find any mention of a book that we have read recently - so I apologize if this has been mentioned before in the book discussions.

"The Red Pyramid" by Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series and the first book in the 39 Clues series, has a main character who is homeschooled. The two main characters are brother and sister who have lost their mother, the sister goes to live with grandparents and the brother travels around the world and is homeschooled by his dad, an archeologist. There is a bit of conversation between the bro and sis about how he sometimes wished that he had been to a normal school, and then she wished that she had been taught by her father. It is in the background, however, and not really part of the main story line.

Now we are big fans of the Percy Jackson series and I do not think the Red Pyramid was nearly as good, but the kids enjoyed it as a read aloud. We were excited to finally finish it and get to the new Percy Jackson book, "The Lost Hero". As I was reading in this book, one of the characters tells her father that she wants to be homeschooled! Now this is too much, because you can read a thousand books of fiction and never see the word homeschooling, and in two books in a row! Too much!

So I got curious and googled Rick Riordan and homeschooling and found that this famous and successful children's author homeschools his son! Here is a link to his blog where he talks about it.

http://rickriordan.blogspot.com/2006...xperiment.html

I think this is very cool! And we are enjoying this new book very much!

Gem

[Momma Aimee]

Originally Posted by Gem0406

I searched this thread and didn't find any mention of a book that we have read recently - so I apologize if this has been mentioned before in the book discussions.

"The Red Pyramid" by Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series and the first book in the 39 Clues series, has a main character who is homeschooled. The two main characters are brother and sister who have lost their mother, the sister goes to live with grandparents and the brother travels around the world and is homeschooled by his dad, an archeologist. There is a bit of conversation between the bro and sis about how he sometimes wished that he had been to a normal school, and then she wished that she had been taught by her father. It is in the background, however, and not really part of the main story line.

Now we are big fans of the Percy Jackson series and I do not think the Red Pyramid was nearly as good, but the kids enjoyed it as a read aloud. We were excited to finally finish it and get to the new Percy Jackson book, "The Lost Hero". As I was reading in this book, one of the characters tells her father that she wants to be homeschooled! Now this is too much, because you can read a thousand books of fiction and never see the word homeschooling, and in two books in a row! Too much!

So I got curious and googled Rick Riordan and homeschooling and found that this famous and successful children's author homeschools his son! Here is a link to his blog where he talks about it.

http://rickriordan.blogspot.com/2006...xperiment.html

I think this is very cool! And we are enjoying this new book very much!

Gem

Thanks so much

[villagemamma]

Wasn't this a sticky before the transition? It would be a shame to lose such a great resource list. 

[physmom]

Originally Posted by Gem0406 

I searched this thread and didn't find any mention of a book that we have read recently - so I apologize if this has been mentioned before in the book discussions.

"The Red Pyramid" by Rick Riordan, author of the Percy Jackson series and the first book in the 39 Clues series, has a main character who is homeschooled. The two main characters are brother and sister who have lost their mother, the sister goes to live with grandparents and the brother travels around the world and is homeschooled by his dad, an archeologist. There is a bit of conversation between the bro and sis about how he sometimes wished that he had been to a normal school, and then she wished that she had been taught by her father. It is in the background, however, and not really part of the main story line.

Now we are big fans of the Percy Jackson series and I do not think the Red Pyramid was nearly as good, but the kids enjoyed it as a read aloud. We were excited to finally finish it and get to the new Percy Jackson book, "The Lost Hero". As I was reading in this book, one of the characters tells her father that she wants to be homeschooled! Now this is too much, because you can read a thousand books of fiction and never see the word homeschooling, and in two books in a row! Too much!

So I got curious and googled Rick Riordan and homeschooling and found that this famous and successful children's author homeschools his son! Here is a link to his blog where he talks about it.

http://rickriordan.blogspot.com/2006...xperiment.html

I think this is very cool! And we are enjoying this new book very much!

Gem

Ha, the second I read this thread I thought of Rick Riordan!  Actually in all his books he never seems to be very excited about schools (they are always a bad fit for the main characters) and it seems the farther you go along (like in the Lost Hero now) he becomes more and more positive about homeschooling. I always wondered if that reflected on his own personal homeschooling journey.  I'm definitely going to check out his blog (we won't be able to be homeschoolers but I'm very supportive of it)!

[mimaja]

Weslandia by Paul  Fleishman

Technically he goes to school, but it's all about how much better things are when you learn while not in school. My older ds loved that book the first time we found it at the library!

[littlethingstx]

The Moody series..... http://www.titus2.com/moody-series/index.php .... a series of fictional novels written by a homeschool graduate.  There are five books in the series right now.  My older kids (6, 10) love for me to read them as read-alouds to them. 

[kittywitty]

Has anyone mentioned the Magyk book? In it, the Heap boys are homeschooled...more of necessity, though.

[kristin0713]

Just wanted to add, my library had a copy of The Reluctant Dragon that was retold as a picture book.  My DD is 5yo and enjoyed it, I think because she also enjoys St. George and the Dragon, and St. George is a character in this book.  This is the version my library has:

http://www.amazon.com/Reluctant-Dragon-Robert-San-Souci/dp/0439455812/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1300313361&sr=1-1

[zebaby]