Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go to School Tell Their Own Stories

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Grace Llewellyn
Lowry House Publishers, 2005 - Biography & Autobiography - 315 pages
This homeschooling classic is back in print, and now its older and wiser! As teenagers, these eleven homeschoolers shared their lives, educations, and their feelings about issues like family relationships and making friends. From the sixteen-year-old who bicycled alone through Colombia to the twelve-year-old who answered questions at a marine science center, each told exactly how they went about the business of learning. For this eleven-year anniversary edition, all the writersnow in their mid-twentiesdescribe their further adventures with life, college, and work, and offer honest (sometimes surprising) hindsight and advice for other self-directed learners and their parents.

About the author (2005)

Grace Llewellyn taught school for three years before unschooling herself and writing The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education. Her other books include Real Lives: eleven teenagers who dont go to school tell their own stories, Freedom Challenge: African American Homeschoolers, and, with Amy Silver, Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School. Ms. Llewellyn has spoken about unschooling to groups and conferences, given workshops, directed a homeschooling resource center, produced a mail order book catalog for unschoolers, and published an unschooling newsletterall with the purpose of helping people (mostly teenagers) take more control of their own lives and educations. She is the founder and director of Not Back to School Camp (in Oregon and West Virginia) for unschooled teenagers, and enjoys a small bellydancing career on the side. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.

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