Home Educators Association of Roxboro

HEAR Library List

Education Resources

Accelerated Distance Learning The New Way to Earn Your College Degree in the Twenty-First Century

Accelerated Distance Learning offers a method to earn a college degree without sitting in class for four years and at a significantly reduced cost. Brad Voeller, a young man who was homeschooled from age four, shares how he earned his "four-year, fully accredited college degree in less than six months, for less than $5,000."

By Brad Voeller

Apprenticeship Plus

Preparing lives unto service

By Inge Cannon M.S. and Ronald Jay Cannon Ph.D.

A Survivor’s Guide to Home Schooling (2 copies)

Writing with wisdom, candor and humor, the authors share the situations, solutions, successes and yes, even the failures home teachers face. A Survivor's Guide to Home Schooling offers practical suggestions, support, and encouragement, all in light of Scriptural guidelines.

By Luanne Shackelford and Susan White

Better Late Than Early

A new approach to your child’s education

By Ronald S. Moore and Dorothy N. Moore

The Big Book of Home Learning

Volume 1: Getting Started

Volume 2: Pre-school – Elementary

Volume 3: Junior High Through College

Here are your homeschooling answers! Bigger and better than ever before, the three volumes of The Big Book of Home Learning, Fourth Edition include the very latest in homeschool product reviews and how-tos - all from the people who bring you Practical Homeschooling!

Practical homeschooling book

By Mary Price

A Charlotte Mason Companion

Personal reflections on the gentle art of learning

By Karen Andreola

Educating the Wholehearted Child

A handbook for Christian home education

By Clay and Sally Clarkson

The Everything Homeschooling Book

Take charge of your child’s education with this authoritative guide to help you homeschool your children! The only reference you need to ensure his or her success—at any age!

By Sherri Linsenbach

For the Children’s Sake

Foundations of education for the home and school

By Susan Schaffer Macaulay

From Playpen to Podium

How to help your children develop the communication skills they need to succeed.

By Jeffrey L. Myers, Ph. D.

Growing Up Where Jesus Lived (Teacher’s Edition)

An Abeka Reader

Homeschool Heroes: The Struggle and Triumph of home schooling in America

Covers the history of the modern homeschool movement, with many stories of God’s faithfulness to homeschool families fighting in court for the right to educate their children. It is a book that can be read by older kids and adults alike to give them an appreciation for all the sacrifices of homeschool families to win the freedom we enjoy today. Home School Heroes concludes with a call to readers to always remain vigilant and active in protecting our precious freedom to teach our children in God’s ways.

By Christopher Klicka

Homeschooling: A patchwork of Days

Share a day with 30 homeschooling families

By Nancy Lande

Homeschooling by Heart

Are you thinking of homeschooling? Avoid burn-out and frazzled nerves by designing a homeschool lifestyle that works best for you and your family. From menu planning and budgeting to organizing your schoolroom and setting a curriculum, Krulikas offers practical advice on how you can make your homeschooling experience efficient, rewarding, and fun. Ideas for veteran homeschoolers, too!

By Kristina Sabalis Krulikas

Homeschooling The Early Years

Your complete guide to successfully homeschooling the 3-to-8-year old child.

Instill a life-long love of learning

Teach the 3 R’s with confidence

Build on your child’s natural gifts

And much, much more!

By Linda Dobson

The Homeschool Manual (7^th Edition)

Plans, pointers, reasons and resources

By Theodore E. Wade Jr.

H*o*m*e schooling The Right Choice

This is the number one resource for home schooling that belongs on every parent's reference shelf. Drawing from years of experience as Senior Counsel of the Home School Legal Defense Association, Klicka provides information on: practical steps to successful home schooling, legal issues and steps to take to protect yourself from over zealous social workers, a candid analysis of public education, higher education's interest in home school graduates, and college success for home educated students. Foreword by D. James Kennedy, Ph.D.

By Christopher Klicka

The Homeschool Reader

Collected stories from Home Education magazine, 1984-1994

By Editors of Home Education Magazine

Home Spun Schools

Teaching children at home-what parents are doing and how they are doing it.

By Raymond and Dorothy Moore

Hot House Transplants

Moving from homeschool into the “real” world

By Matthew Duffy

How to Homeschool: A Practical Approach

How To Homeschool will take the new homeschooler through everything they need to know about their new adventure.

By Gayle Graham

Identity Directed Homeschooling (audio tape and handout)

By Chris Davis

Learning In Spite of Labels

Practical teaching tips and a Christian perspective of education

"These techniques and ideas are for all children, not just the learning disabled. This book is for everyone who teaches!"

By Joyce Herzog

Making the Grade: Grades 1 – 2

Make learning fun and more effective. This unique book outlines how you can foster a lifelong love of learning in your child. Making the Grade: Grades 1 – 2 lays a solid foundation for future success in schooling—and life.

The McGraw-hill Homeschooling Companion

An all-inclusive guide for the parents homeschooled children,

provides parents with a complete, authoritative, truly balanced guide to every aspect of homeschooling, from the primary years through high school.This all-in-one manual covers the different approaches to homeschooling as well as the specific methods for setting up the home learning environment, including legal requirements, supplies, and lesson plans. Individual chapters examine the stages of homeschooling: what curriculum planning involves, the indispensable tools for the home classroom, computer use, and tips and techniques on teaching all the core curriculum requirements. Special features include comprehensive treatment of standardized testing, state by state; practical counsel on integrating homeschooling and living in the outside world; 10 favorite homeschool suppliers; websites; and homeschooling laws for all 50 states.

By Laura Saba and Julie Gattis

Things We Wish We’d Known: A Guide to Abundant Living

50 Veteran Homeschoolers Share

Makes available to you the time-earned secrets of fifty veteran homeschooling families. Coming from pioneers and leaders in the homeschooling community, "Things We Wish We'd Known" will become an indispensable guide and inspiration for your own journey.

Bill and Diana Waring

The Underground History of American Education

A homeschoolers intimate investigation into the problem of modern schooling

By John Taylor Gattis

The Unschooling Handbook: How to Use the Whole World As Your Child’s Classroom (2 copies)

Unschooling, a homeschooling method based on the belief that kids learn best when allowed to pursue their natural curiosities and interests, is practiced by 10 to 15 percent of the estimated 1.5 million homeschoolers in the United States. Book includes resources such as one teenager's sample "transcript," a typical weekly log of a third-grader's activities, and helpful lists of magazines, online mailing lists, Web sites, and catalogs.

By Mary Griffith

The Ultimate Guide to Homeschooling

Book includes hundreds of web sites and the most up-to-date information available on homeschooling resources, suppliers, organizations, academic contests and more. Lots more on homeschooling through middle school and high school, plus the latest innovations from homeschoolers around the country. 

By Debra Bell

You Can Teach Your Child Successfully (Grades 4 – 8)

This classic gives nitty-gritty help for each subject in each grade. Become an informed, confident teacher, free from rigid textbooks. Learn how to individualize spelling; how to use "real books" in history, reading, and other studies; how to make arithmetic meaningful; how to avoid the grammar treadmill; how to develop advanced reading skills; and much more.

By Ruth Beechick

High School

Creating Transcripts (2 copies)

What Every Parent Should Know

Audio tape and book

By Inge Cannon

The High School Handbook

Yes, you can home school through High School. This book includes information about educational goals, graduation requirements, course descriptions, college admissions, transcripts, reading suggestions and more.

By Mary Schofield

Power Gide Documentation

Art and Music

Kids Create! Art and Craft Experiences for 3 – 9 year olds

Includes more than 150 craft and art activities for creative self-expression of youngsters, with easy-to-follow instructions.

By Laurie Carlson

The Pointer System for the Piano (Volumes 4 and 5)

A fast, easy and direct approach to the learning of chords and melodies on the piano.

Raising Musical Kids

Great ideas to help your child develop a love for music.

By Patrick Kavanaugh

Teach Me to Play

Howard Kasschau Piano Course

A preliminary book for the earliest beginner

Fathers and Sons

Bringing Up Boys: Practical Advice and Encouragement for Those Shaping the Next Generation of Men

Boys are different! But with pressure to be "gender neutral," many try to mold children into a one-size-fits-all model. Dr. Dobson explains why boys are the way they are, how to understand their emotional and physical development, and the best way to motivate them to become godly men.

By Dr. James Dobson

The Homeschool Father: The Key to Success and Sanity

Home school fathers face special challenges. No one knows this better than home schooling father Mike Farris, president of Home School Legal Defense Association and father of 10. Mike offers insight and guidance from years of experience.

By Michael P. Farris

The Power of a Praying Husband

Each chapter features comments from well known Christian men, biblical wisdom, and prayer ideas.

By Stormie Omartian

Moms, Moms and Daughters and Wives

A Mom Just Like You

Sometimes I feel like I’m drowning..How can I keep on home schooling my kids? The authors, a home schooling mom of ten and her second child, will fill you with encouragement and practical suggestions for those days when the challenge seems overwhelming.

By Vickie Farris and Jayme Farris

The Busy Mom’s Guide to Simple Living: Creative Ideas and Practical Ways for Making the Most Out of What you Have

A busy homeschooling mother of seven offers creative and practical ways to free family time and resources, establish godly priorities and simplify life at home, full of sensitive and sensible wisdom.

By Jackie Wellwood

The Divine Dance

If the world is a stage, who are you performing for?

By Shannon Kubiak

The Hidden Art of Homemaking

Creative ideas for enriching everyday life shared as the author reveals the many opportunities for artistic expression that can be found in ordinary, everyday life.

By Edith Schaeffer

Hidden Pearls: A Story of Purity (pamphlet)

By Abbie Benton Bonsteel

Mother and Daughter Closer: To God and Each Other

Take one part talking and two parts listening, sprinkle liberally with Scripture and fun activities, and what do you have? Closer. Written for both mothers and teen daughters, Closer provides topics you can discuss together, drawing you closer to God and closer to each other. It helps you and your daughter to see each other as growing, independent, and valuable individuals.

By Susie Shellenberger

The Power of a Positive Mom

Seven power filled principles for building your home with love and encouragement.

By Karol Ladd

The Power of a Praying Wife

Worrying about your marriage changes nothing..praying about it can change everything.

By Stormie Omartian

Seasons of a Mother’s Heart

Each essay in Seasons of a Mother"s Heart is a window on some aspect of the inner life of being a homeschooling mother. Sally shares her extensive experience as a mother of four children who have been homeschooled from birth. Using inspiring insights and messages of hope, she writes to encourage other mothers to hang in there. Each chapter includes a brief Bible study, practical ideas for living the Word, a thought-provoking quote, and much more.

By Sally Clarkson

Finances

Margin: Restoring Emotional, Physical, Financial and Time Reserves to Overloaded Lives

If you yearn for relief from the pain and pressure of overload, take a lifelong dose of Margin under the care of a specialist. The benefits of good health, financial stability, fulfilling relationships, and availability for God's purposes will follow you
By Richard A. Swenson M.D.

Discipline and Motivational

52 Simple Ways to Teach Your Child to Pray

Offers practical suggestions on teaching your child to talk with God and what to talk about. It might even have a thing or two for adults to learn about prayer.

By Roberta Hromas

Age of Opportunity

A biblical guide to parenting teens

By Paul David Tripp

A Sacred Foundation

The Importance of Strength In the Home School Marriage

Hundreds of thousands of home school spouses have discovered something—maintaining an excellent marriage is tough!

It’s far too easy to focus on the children while neglecting the very foundation of the home school—a rock solid marriage based on the only Firm Foundation.

Hands on practical tools—the authors take you step-by-step through the issues you will face (or in which you now find yourself ensconced) as a home schooling spouse.

By Mike Farris and L. Reed Elam

God, TV and the Family (handout and audio tape)

By Bob Bradley

Heartfelt Discipline: the Gentle Art of training and Guiding Your Child

A faith-directed approach to discipline that spares the rod but doesn’t spoil the children. Through biblical advice, answers to commonly asked questions, and positive encouragement, Clay Clarkson presents a new, biblical model of discipline, one that allows parents to embrace a completely new way of thinking about childhood discipline, renew their relationships with their children, and transform the dynamics of their family life.

By Clay Clarkson

The Heart of Anger

Practical help for the prevention and cure of anger in children.

By Lou Priolo

How to Really Love Your Child

From a distinctly Christian viewpoint, How to Really Love Your Child can help you as a parent manifest love to your young child in all situations of child-rearing—from positive eye contact and physical touch to effective discipline and spiritual nurture.

By Ross Campbell, M.D.

How to Really Love Your Teenager

In How to Really Love Your Teenager, Dr. Campbell offers ideas to help you create a solid, balanced approach for relating to your teenager.

By Ross Campbell, M.D.

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk

An excellent communication tool kit based on a series of workshops developed by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. Faber and Mazlish (coauthors of Siblings Without Rivalry) provide a step-by-step approach to improving relationships in your house.

By Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

I Saw the Angel in the Marble

Set your children free to be the individuals God created them to be.

By Chris and Ellen Davis

Let Us Highly Resolve

Our children are continually assaulted by today's secular worldview-ever increasing your responsibility to teach Christian values. Praised by Josh McDowell, this gem draws extensively from Scripture, motivating you to build your family on a biblical foundation and teach your kids to discern truth in a post-Christian culture and prepare our families to enter the 21^st century.

By David and Shirley Quine

Making Family Memories-A Family Night Planner

Regular, quality time together as a family is so important, but organizing a planned family time together can be difficult. Rich and Bonnie Skinner show you how you can teach your children God’s principles while having a lot of fun together. You will find that a successfully organized family fun night is a wise investment of your family’s time and energy.

By Rich and Bonnie Skinner

The Myth of Adolescence: Raising Responsible Children in an Irresponsible Society

The Myth of Adolescence is just a beginning, a starting place of what will be a new frontier for many people. But in reality, it's an old frontier, tried and proven over many centuries. It merely awaits discovery anew within these pages.

By Dr. David Alan Black

One On One Discipleship

Ministry up close and personal

ONE-ON-ONE DISCIPLESHIP, from the Bible Teaching Ministry of Charles R. Swindoll, Insight for Living. Features teachings based on various scriptures including John and 2 Timothy and Luke.

Bible study and guide

By Charles R. Swindoll

Parenting from the Heart: Practical Parenting from a Mom of 14 Children

Nationally respected homeschooling speaker and author Boyer shares her wisdom---and wit---from 30 years' experience as a mother. Filled with advice about crying babies and screaming shoppers, turning problems into projects, moving from sorrow to joy, setting up "school," standing alone, and letting your children grow and go. Includes lots of family photos!

By Marilyn Boyer

Polite Moments

A guide for training young people to have the habits that will lead to Godly character.

By Gary and Cathy Maldaner

Spiritual Heritage Tour of the United States Capitol: A Self-Guided Tour

This book provides valuable assistance in taking your own self-guided tour of the Capitol. An excellent resource for those who might plan to visit the Capitol or simply want to know more about it.

By David Barton

Miscellaneous

Dinosaurs Before Dark (CD)

A fun way to spend story time together.

Step into a world of adventure!

Read by Mary Pope Osborne

Missing books:

The Messies Superguide

By Sandra Felton (does not show it checked out)

Making Wise Decisions About College (shows returned by Dale Clayton on 03/14/08 but no book in inventory)