Real lives : eleven teenagers who don't go to school tell their own stories / edited and with an introduction by Grace Llewellyn. - [updated] ed. - Eugene, Oregon : Lowry Huse Publishers, c2005. - 315 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm.

"The first edition of this book was published in 1993 with the title Real Lives: eleven teenagers who don't go to school"--t.p. verso. "Eleven year anniversary edition, with updates by all the writers".

Inlcudes bibliographical references (p. [307]-309) and index.

1. Erin Roberts: My favourite teacher is a horse - Erin Cosgrove: In the middle of everything -- 2. Jeremiah Gingold: Homeschooling for peace and justice - Unfettered and responsible - Sarah Gingold: Another homeschooler for peace -- 3. Vallie Raymond: Journal - Learning as a way of life -- 4. Rebecca Merrion: Giving my time - Gratitude and regret -- 5. Kyla Wetherell: Rising out - Notes on finding work - La gringa y la bicicleta - Improvising -- 6. Anne Brosnan: Sweet Kentucky home: honeybees and a bluegrass banjo - Anne Lawson: Fulfilling God's call -- 7. Ayanna Williams: Fifity pen-pals - A purpose beyond myself -- 8. Patrick Meehan: Ascent from a nightmare - Gwen Meehan: a parent's perspective - Patrick Meehan: Further scents from subsequent nightmares -- 9. Tabitha Mountjoy: Make me wild - Tabitha Mountjoy Hall: Creating and recreating my life -- 10. Kevin Sellstrom: What radios and bicycles (and everything else) have to do with my education - Things change -- Amanda Bergson-Shilcock: Homeschooling is another word for 'living' - This is how I live.

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Self-culture--United States.
Home schooling--United States.
Education, Secondary--United States.
Teenagers' writings, American.

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