Big List of Unschooling and Natural Learning Books

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• How Children Fail, John Holt
• How Children Learn, John Holt
• Learning in the Absence of Education, Beverley Paine
• Natural Learning (booklet), Beverley Paine
• Natural Learning Answers, Beverley Paine
• Free Range Learning, Laura Weldon
• Moving a Puddle, Sandra Dodd
• Natural Born Learners: Unschooling and Autonomy in Education, Beatrice Ekwa Ekoko
• And the Skylark Sings to Me: Adventures in Homeschooling and Community-Based Education, David H Albert
• How Children Learn at Home, Alan Thomas
• Guerilla Learning, Amy Silver and Grace Llewellyn
• The Unschooling Unmanual, Jan Hunt and Nanda Van Gestel
• Challenging Assumptions in Education, Wendy Priesnitz
• Free Range Education How Home Education Works, Terri Dowty
• The Unprocessed Child, Living Without School, Valerie Fitzenreiter
• Bound to be Free, Jan Fortune Wood
• Educating Children At Home, Alan Thomas
• Those Unschooled Minds, Julie Webb
• Doing it their way, Jan Fortune Wood
• Big Book of Unschooling, Sandra Dodd
• Radical Unschooling - a Revolution has Begun, Dayna Martin
• Fortune Wood, Jan. With Consent: parenting for all to win
• The Continuum Concept, Jean Leidloff
• Free to Learn: Five ideas for a joyful unschooling life, Pam Laricchia
• Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go to School, Grace Llewellyn
• The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education, Grace Llewellyn
• Unconditional Parenting, Alfie Kohn,
• The Unschooled Mind, Howard Gardner.
• The Natural Child, Jan Hunt
• Instead of Education, John Holt
• Free to Live, by Pam Laricchia
• Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling, John Taylor Gatto
• Live Love Learn, Csilla Tottszer
• Homeschooling and the Voyage of Self-Discovery: A Journey of Original Seeking, David H Albert
• Homeschooling For Excellence, David and Micki Colfax
• Parenting a Free Child - an Unschooled Life, Rue Kream
• Beyond Schooling : Building Communities Where Learning Really Matters, Gatto, John Taylor & Hamza Yusuf Hanson.
• Unschooling, Sara McGrath
• The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World as Your Child's Classroom, Griffith, Mary
• The Day I Became an Autodidact: And the Advice, Adventures, and Acrimonies That Befell Me Thereafter, Hailey, Kendall
• Self University, Hayes, Charles D
• Deschooling Our Lives, Hern, Matt
• Magical Child, J Chilton Pearce
• Escape from Childhood; the needs and rights of children, John Holt
• Learning All the Time, John Holt
• Honey for a Child's Heart, Hunt, Gladys
• Deschooling Society, llich, Ivan
• Better than College, Blake Boles
• Trust the Children, Kealoha, Anna
• Free to Learn, Peter Gray
• Never Too Late, John Holt
• Weapons of Mass Instruction, John Taylor Gatto
• Gifted Education Comes Home: A Case for Self-Directed Homeschooling, Rivero, Lisa
• Unschooling Rules, Clark Aldridge
• Punished By Rewards, Alfie Kohn
• No Contest, Alfie Kohn
• I Learn Better by Teaching Myself, Leistico, Agnes.
• For the Children's Sake, Sheffer, Susannah
• A Life Worth Living : The Selected Letters of John Holt, Sheffer, Susannah.
• The Simplicity of Homeschooling: Discover the Freedom of Learning Through Living, Goodchild, Vicki and Goodchild, Jack.
• Summerhill, a New View of Childhood, AS Neill
• Leistico, Agnes. Still Teaching Ourselves
• McKee, Alison. Homeschooling Our Children, Unschooling Ourselves
• The Freethinker's Pocket Directory to the Educational Universe, Meighan, Roland
• Meighan, Roland John Holt, Meighan, Roland
• Meighan, Roland. Learning Unlimited, Meighan, Roland
• The Next Learning System, Meighan, Roland
• Theory and Practice of Regressive Education, Meighan, Roland
• Natural Learning and the Natural Learning Curriculum, Meighan, Roland
• Creating Learning Communities, Ron Miller (Ed)
• Unschooling Kelly, John McEwan