Favorite Books in the Field
THREE CLASSIC INFLUENTIAL BOOKS
Grace Llewellyn
The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education
Alfie Kohn
Punished by Rewards
John Holt & Pat Farenga
Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling
THREE BOOKS THAT MENTION NORTHSTAR
Joel Hammon
How to Leave School and Create a Place Where You and Young People Can Thrive
Sir Ken Robinson
Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That’s Transforming Education
Kerry McDonald
Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside of the Conventional Classroom
OTHER BOOKS IN THE FIELD
John holt
How Children Fail
John Holt
How Children Learn
John Holt
Freedom and Beyond
John holt
Instead of Education: Ways to Help People Do Better Things
Susannah Sheffer
A Life Worth Living: The Selected Letters of John Holt
Susannah Sheffer
A Sense of Self: Listening to Homeschooled Adolescent Girls
Blake Boles
The Art of Self-Directed Learning: 23 Tips for Giving Yourself an Unconventional Education
Blake Boles
Better Than College: How To Build A Successful Life Without a Four-Year Degree
Blake Boles
College Without High School: A Teenager’s Guide to Skipping High School and Going To College
John Taylor Gatto
Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher’s Journey Through The Dark World of Compulsory Schooling
Matt Hern
Deschooling Our Lives
David Guterson