Canadian Home-Based Learning Books
School Free: The Home Schooling Handbook by Wendy Priesnitz (The Alternate Press, 1987, 1991, 1093, 1995) - Canada's first home-based learning how-to book. Answers to all your questions about home-based learning in Canada.
Challenging Assumptions in Education by Wendy Priesnitz (The Alternate Press, 2000) - What's wrong with compulsory schooling and how home-based educators can direct the inevitable change.
Life Learning: Lessons from the Educational Frontier by Wendy Priesnitz (The Alternate Press, 2008) - Parents, unschooled young people and academics illustrate the effectiveness of learner-directed education.
For the Sake of Our Children by Léandre Bergeron (The Alternate Press, 2009) - A passionate memoir of how a Quebec father unschooled his three daughters.
Learning at Home: A Mother's Guide to Homeschooling by Marty Layne (Sea Change Publications, 1998, 2009) - Encouragement, wisdom and hindsight from a former homeschooling mom.
Living Dreams by Gaye Chicoine (2008) - One van, three years, two parents, six kids - a home-educating family from Quebec takes learning on the road.
College Without High School: A Teenager’s Guide to Skipping High School and Going to College by Blake Boles (New Society Publishers, 2009) - Encouragement and how-to information about unschooling high school.
48 Reasons Not to Go to School by Heidi Priesnitz (The Alternate Press) - A children's book of cartoons and captions. (out of print)
Deschooling Our Lives edited by Matt Hern (New Society Publishers, 1998) - Essays about self-directed education by everybody from Tolstoy to unschooled teen Heidi Priesnitz. (out of print)
And the Children Played by Patricia Joudry (Tundra Books, 1975, 1983) - A humorous memoir by a Canadian author who homeschooled her family while living in Britain. (out of print)
