Following is a suggested reading list for homeschool families. You can click on any of the links below to jump quickly to a section. Also, please see our page with the curriculum resources list.

Why Home School?
Books About Homeschooling
Practical Teaching Resources
Teaching Children With Special Needs
Christian Parenting, Faith and Character - General
Christian Parenting, Faith and Character - Specific to Sons
Christian Parenting, Faith and Character - Specfic to Daughters
Magazines, Newsletters and Mailing Lists for homeschoolers

Legend:
* Available in the CCHE Resource Library
+ Available in the public library system

Why Home School?
* Child Abuse in the Classroom by Phyllis Schlafly
* Children Held Hostage by Phillip Snyder
+ Dumbing us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
* Homeschooling: The Right Choice: by Christopher Klicka
Into The Problem Of Modern Schooling by John Taylor Gatto
* Secular Humanism, Most Dangerous Religion in the World Today by Homer Duncan
The Heart of Homeschooling: Teaching & Living What Really Matters by Christopher Klicka
+ The Underground History of American Education :A Schoolteacher's Intimate Investigation
When You Rise Up: A Covenantal Approach to Homeschooling by R.C. Sproul Jr.
* Why Home School Through High School? By Joshua Harris (Video)
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Books About Homeschooling
+ A Survivor's Guide to Homeschooling by Shackleford & White
+ Better Late Than Early by Dr. Raymond Moore
+ Better Than School by Nancy Wallace
+ Beyond Survival: A Guide to Abundant-Life Homeschooling by Diana Waring
*+ For the Childrens' Sake by Susan Schaeffer Macaulay
Heart of Wisdom Publishing
+ Home Educating With Confidence by Rick Boyer
*+ Home Grown Kids by Dr. Raymond Moore
+ Home Style Teaching by Dr. Raymond Moore
Homeschool Book of Answers by Linda Dobson
+ Homeschool: Taking the First Step by Borg Hendrickson
+ How Children Fail by John Holt
+ How Ordinary Parents Can Produce Extraordinary Children by Rick Boyer
Reaping the Harvest: The Bounty of Abundant-Life Homeschooling by Diana Waring
+ School At Home by Theodore Wade and Dr. Raymond Moore
+ School Proof by Mary Pride
* Successful Home School by J. Richard Fugate
*+ Teach Your Own by John Holt
The Heart of Homeschooling: Teaching & Living What Really Matters by Christopher Klicka
*+ The Homeschooling Father by Michael Farris
The Homeschooling Handbook by Mary Griffith
The Relaxed Homeschool by Dr. Mary Hood
+ The Successful Homeschool Family Handbook by Dr. Raymond Moore
The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home by Susan Wise Bauer
Things We Wish We'd Known: 50 Veteran Homeschoolers Share Insights by Bill & Diana Waring
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Practical Teaching Resources
+ A Charlotte Mason Education: A Home Schooling How-To Manual by Catherine Levison
A Charlotte Mason Companion by Karen Andreola
*+ An Easy Start in Arithmetic by Ruth Beechick (Or, The Three R's Series (gr. K-3) by Ruth Beechick)
* An Easy Start in Reading by Ruth Beechick (Or, The Three R's Series (gr. K-3) by Ruth Beechick)
* An Easy Start in Language by Ruth Beechick (Or, The Three R's Series (gr. K-3) by Ruth Beechick)
+ Beyond Survival: A Guide to Abundant-Life Homeschooling by Diana Waring
* Discovering Your Children's Gifts by Don & Katie Fortune
Homeschooling on a Shoe String by Morgan & Alee
Honey for a Child's Heart by Gladys Hunt
How to Create Your Own Unit Study by Valerie Bendt
How to Write a Low Cost/ No Cost Curriculum by Borg Hendrickson
+ In Their Own Way: Discovering and Encouraging Your Child's Personal Learning Style by Thomas Armstrong
+ Language and Thinking for Young Children by Ruth Beechick
Reaping the Harvest: The Bounty of Abundant-Life Homeschooling by Diana Waring
Teaching Children (grades 1-6) by Diane Lopez
The Home School Source Book by Donn Reed
+ The Language Wars and Other Writings for Homeschoolers by Ruth Beechick
*+ You Can Teach Your Child Sucessfully (gr. 4-8) by Ruth Beechick
Unit Study Idea Book by Valerie Bendt
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Teaching Children With Special Needs
+ Attention Deficit Disorder and Learning by Barbara Ingersoll, PhD.
+ Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder by Paul H. Wender
* Discovering Your Children's Gifts by Don & Katie Fortune
Homeschooling Children with Special Needs by Sharon Hensley
+ In Their Own Way: Discovering and Encouraging Your Child's Personal Learning Style by Thomas Armstrong
+ Learning Disabilities: A Family Affair by Betty B. Osman
+ Learning Disabilities and Your Child by Lawrence J. Greene
Learning in Spite of Labels by Joyce Herzog
+ Making the Words Stand Still by Donald E. Lyman
+ Overcoming Dyslexia by Beve Hornsby
* Putting on the Brakes: Young People's Guide to Understanding ADHD by Patricia Quinn, MD
+ The Hyperactive Child, Adolescent and Adult by Paul H. Wender
+ The Learning Disabled Child: Ways a Parent Can Help by Suzanne Stevens
* The Parent's Guide to Learning Disabilities: Understanding & Helping Your Child by Alice D'Antoni
+ The Strong Willed Child by Dr. James Dobson
+ Understanding and Managing Overactive Children by Don Fontenelle
+ Unicorns Are Real by Barbara M. Vitale
+ Why Your Child is Hyperactive by Ben F. Feingold
+ Your Child Can Win by Joan Noyes
+ Your Hyperactive Child: A Parent's Guide to Coping With Attention Deficit Disorder by Barbara Ingersoll, PhD.
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Christian Parenting, Faith and Character - General
(Also see "History & Character" on curriculum resources page)
Blessing Your Children by Jack W. Hayford
Family Driven Faith: Doing What it Takes to Raise Sons and Daughters Who Walk With God by Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
+ How to Really Love Your Child by Ross Campbell
+ How to Really Love Your Teenager by Ross Campbell
Making Brothers and Sisters Best Friends by Sarah, Stephen, and Grace Malley
+ Shepherding a Child's Heart by Tedd Tripp
+ The Age of Opportunity A Biblical Guide to Parenting Teens by Paul David Tripp
+ The Five Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman & Ross Campbell
The Five Love Languages of Teenagers by Gary Chapman
The Spiritual Power of a Mother: Encouragement for the Homeschooling Mom by Michael P. Farris

Christian Parenting, Faith and Character - Specific to Sons:
Boyhood and Beyond by Bob Schultz
Created for Work by Bob Schultz
Practical Happiness by Bob Schultz
Preparing Sons to Provide for a Single-Income Family by Steven Maxwell
Raising a Modern-Day Knight: A Father's Role in Guiding His Son to Authentic Manhood by Robert Lewis
Stand Fast in the Way of Truth: Fathers & Sons Volume 1 by Douglas Bond
Thoughts for Young Men by J.C. Ryle
Young Man, Be Strong by David G. Burkholder (Publisher is Rod & Staff)
Wise Guys: A Guide to Building Godly Character in Boys by Dan & Carol Fiddler

Christians Parenting, Faith and Character - Specific to Daughters:
A Girl of Beauty: Building Character in Young Girls by Carol Fiddler
Beautiful Girlhood by Karen Andreola
Raising Maidens of Virtue by Stacy McDonald
+ She Calls Me Daddy: Seven Things Every Man Needs to Know About Building a Complete Daughter by Robert Wolgemuth
What a Daughter Needs From Her Dad: How a Man Prepares His Daughter for Life by Michael Farris
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Magazines, Newsletters and Mailing Lists for Homeschoolers
God's World News Current events weekly newspaper and book club for school age children.
+ Home Education Magazine
Home School Digest Quarterly Magazine
+ Homeschooling Today Magazine
Moore Report International
NATHHAN Special needs newsletter, lending library and support group
National Home Education Research Institute Newsletter
+ Homeschool World/Practical Homeschooling Magazine
*+ The Teaching Home Magazine