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Reading Lists for College Bound Students, 3/e (Reading Lists for College-Bound Students)
Estel & Satchwell
Arco, 2000
For ALL Book-Lovers, Not Just Aspiring College Students
+ A great source for finding something worthwhile to read
+ Effective teaching tool
Many different universities and colleges provided the author with the names of works they recommend or use in first-year English classes. I remember seeing the first edition of this book when I was in high school and falling madly in love with it. Unfortunately, it was at the public library and ...
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Homeschooling: The Teen Years: Your Complete Guide to Successfully Homeschooling the 13- to 18- Year-Old ...
Cafi Cohen, Janie Levine Hellyer
Prima Publishing, 2000
A.D.D. and Homeschooling
+ Easy Reader
+ Cafi Cohen Instills Confidence
+ A Must Have for Homeschooling Teens
+ Help with teens
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The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classical Guide to World Literature, Revised and Expanded
Clifton Fadiman, John S. Major
Collins, 1999
read the preface for goodness sake
+ Best of the "Best"
+ Ramblings of an English major...
+ If You Were "Sick" That Day, Then Get This Book
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The Complete Home Learning Source Book: The Essential Resource Guide for Homeschoolers, Parents, and ...
Rebecca Rupp
Three Rivers Press, 1998
So blessed I found this!
+ It has "Complete" in the title for a reason and gets really close
+ A fantastic reference book that needs to be updated!
+ When she says COMPLETE
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The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
Grace Llewellyn
Lowry House Pub, 1998
A Must Read
+ Excellent!! Truly Excellent!!
This is the only review I have ever written so take note.
This book changed my life.I went through school being vaugly aware of the opression I was suffering but I figured,as most teens would,that it was unavoidable. Keep in mind I was no deliquent. I made highest honors every term and was in AP ...
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Home Education Magazine
Home Education Press
The first, the best
+ THE most comprehensive resource for homeschooling
+ Wonderful homeschooling resource
+ Without a doubt--best all-around homeschooling magazine!
+ Just the Facts
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A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls
Susannah Sheffer
Boynton/Cook, 1997
Explores issues about lost of self esteem in young women
+ Wonderful perspective shift!
+ 4 stars!
There has been a lot of news and research recently about some of the negative changes in girls as they become young women. The author of "A Sense of Self" Susannah Sheffer was reading some of the literature and noticed a comment about how all of the girls in these studies were in the public school ...
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Homeschool Your Child for Free: More Than 1,200 Smart, Effective, and Practical Resources for Home Education ...
LauraMaery Gold, Joan M. Zielinski
Three Rivers Press, 2000
Need New Edition
The book is very beneficial for those who do not have much money to spend. It is very informative for the parents who are beginning to home school. The only problem I have with the book is that some of the links are outdated, and some the books recommended for free in the book by the US ...
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And What About College?: How Homeschooling Leads to Admissions to the Best Colleges & Universities
Cafi Cohen
Holt Associates, 2000
Clear Direction for Home Schooling Parents
+ What a great book!
+ Cafi Cohen's "And What About College?"
+ From a grateful Reader
+ A must read for those in doubt about home schooling
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Homeschoolers' College Admissions Handbook: Preparing Your 12- to 18-Year-Old for a Smooth Transition
Cafi Cohen
Three Rivers Press, 2000
LOVED IT
+ Great to Know
+ Excellent Help for Parents of Homeschoolers
All students homeschooled or institutionally educated should read and heed Cafi Cohen's Homeschoolers' College Admissions Handbook. It's fascinating. (Without obvious intent this book makes a strong case for continual lifetime learning.) It is an exceptionally well-annotated reference work. It ...
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Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School
Rebecca Rupp
Three Rivers Press, 2000
I wouldn't be without this book!
+ Great resource for homeschooing parents
+ Great Source of Info!
+ Terrific Resource
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The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
Susan Wise Bauer
W. W. Norton & Company, 2003
Very good book
Helpful and very well organized. The author takes a very daunting task (to become "well read" and classically educated) and truly encourages and motivates the reader.
She offers her lists which, she explains, are just a starting point and not exhaustive. They are set up chronologically and she ...
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The Day I Became an Autodidact
Kendall Hailey
Delta, 1989
Kendall was and is my idol!
+ An achievement and, 18 years later, still needed.
+ Fascinating, wonderful, witty...only Grinches could dislike it...
+ Excellent!
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Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go to School
Lowry House Pub, 1993
Great book!
+ great book
+ Real Life stories to ease your anxieties
+ Real Lives
+ Real Lives : Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go to School
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The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
Grace Llewellyn
Lowry House Pub, 1998
A Must Read
+ Excellent!! Truly Excellent!!
This is the only review I have ever written so take note.
This book changed my life.I went through school being vaugly aware of the opression I was suffering but I figured,as most teens would,that it was unavoidable. Keep in mind I was no deliquent. I made highest honors every term and was in AP ...
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