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Welcome to Lowry House Publishers!We are a tiny but magical publishing company with just 3 titles, all related to unschooling, or homeschooling. To buy or find out lots more about any of them--reviews, excerpts, contents, etc.-- click on a title. If you are part of the book trade, or are a library or nonprofit corporation, you will find a discount schedule and information about our terms, etc., here.
Please note: our shipping department will be closed from August 8 through the end of September. You can purchase our books through Amazon and other retail outlets. Sorry for the inconvenience!
The Teenage Liberation Handbook:
how to quit school and get a real life
and education, revised edition, by Grace Llewellyn. ISBN Written by a former English teacher, this personable, irreverent, practical, inspiring, funny, and information-packed cult classic is the only complete guide to homeschooling for teenagers. It covers everything from why to consider self-directed education, to convincing parents that quitting school is a marvelous idea, to "getting a social life without proms," to designing a "tailor-made educational extravaganza" (curriculum), to finding mentors, apprenticeships, and meaningful volunteer positions. Vivid examples from the lives of dozens of unschooled teenagers illustrate the author's suggestions. Fans of the Handbook include not only teenagers but many college students, parents, teachers, and school counselors. "This is a very dangerous book. It contradicts all the conventional wisdom about dropouts and the importance of a formal education. It is funny and inspiring. Do not, under any circumstances, share this book with a bright, frustrated high-schooler being ground into mind fudge by the school system. This writer cannot be responsible for the happiness and sense of personal responsibility that might [result]." -Bloomsbury Review
This homeschooling classic is back in print, and now it's 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 writers--now in their mid-twenties--describe their further adventures with life, college, and work, and offer honest (sometimes surprising) hindsight and advice for other self-directed learners and their parents. "I am unashamedly wild about this book; I think it's one of the most exciting things to happen to (or to come out of) the homeschooling movement in a long time.....These kids are learning from the world and they're contributing to it, too. It's impossible to read this book and not understand that homeschooling is more than just sitting at home with a textbook." --Susannah Sheffer in Growing Without Schooling magazine
Sunshine apprentices at an herb nursery and learns about architecture and astronomy from family friends. Adam was "criminal minded" and getting F's when he left school at age thirteen; at fifteen, he has helped build a barn and enjoys reading Maya Angelou. At six, Maya taught herself to read; at seven, she decided to learn to row a boat.... Read these fifteen groundbreaking
essays--by parents,
teenagers, and children--and discover
"Strong
stuff...A collection of revelations about the power of learning and love."
--Bloomsbury
Review
We also sell unschooling
T-shirts in four original designs.
"I have become a walking billboard with my unschooling shirt! It's wonderful! Makes me feel well read! But most importantly, it tends to put people in the frame of mind that is excited and curious about what one would do if not spending all their time at school. I end up having more enthusiastic philosophical conversations, rather than upsetting, one-sided, floods of invasive, accusatory questions."
This page was last updated on 08/05/08.
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(Our T shirt store is temporarily closed ~ sorry.)