Books
- How Children Fail; How Children Learn; Teach Your Own; and other titles by John Holt
- Growing Young; Natural Superiority of Women; Touching: The Human Significance of the Skin; and other titles by Ashley Montagu
- Thinking Goes to School: Piaget’s Theory in Practice by Hans G. Furth and Harry Wachs
- Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling and other titles by John Taylor Gatto
- Open Connections: The Other Basics by Susan D. Shilcock and Peter A. Bergson
- The Continuum Concept by Jean Leidloff
- The Unschooling Handbook and other titles by Mary Griffith
- The Teenage Liberation Handbook and other titles by Grace Llewellyn
- And the Skylark Sings with Me by David H. Albert
- Homeschooling Book of Answers and other titles by Linda Dobson
- Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense by David Gutterson
- Homeschooling for Excellence by David and Micki Colfax
- Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes and other books by Alfie Kohn
- Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences and other titles by Howard Gardner
- Seven Kinds of Smart by Thomas Armstrong (Gardner's theory made simple)
- The Myth of the ADD Child and other titles by Thomas Armstrong
- Writing Because We Love To by Susannah Sheffer
- The Lives of Children by George Dennison
- Growing Up Absurd and Compulsory Mis-education and the Community of Scholars by Paul Goodman
- The Plug-in Drug by Marie Winn
Other Resource Recommendations

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