The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education

by Grace Llewellyn

Overview

The inspiring, funny, and information-packed underground classic is back-in a completely revised and updated thirtieth anniversary edition!

The Teenage Liberation Handbook is (still) the only complete guide to unschooling written for youth. It tackles everything~

• why to consider self-directed education
• communicating with reluctant parents
• "getting a social life without proms"
• designing a "tailor-made intellectual extravaganza" and getting into college
• finding great mentors, apprenticeships, and volunteer positions

Devoted fans of the Handbook include not only teenagers and college students but also thousands of parents, teachers, young adult librarians, school counselors, and college professors. The new edition is loaded with updated resource sections, a thoughtful new introduction, and refreshed text throughout.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780962959196
Publisher:	Lowry House Publishers
Publication date:	10/01/2021
Edition description:	3rd 30-Year Anniversary ed.
Pages:	450
Sales rank:	264,214
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Grace Llewellyn is a former middle school teacher, the founder and director of Not Back to School Camp, and a global thought leader in the field of Self-Directed Education. Her other books are Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go to School Tell Their Own Stories, Freedom Challenge: African American Homeschoolers, and Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School. She lives with her son in Eugene, Oregon.