Grace Llewellyn

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Grace Llewellyn
Born	1964 Boise, Idaho
Occupation	Author Publisher Director
Genres	Nonfiction
Subjects	Homeschooling, Self-Education, Youth studies, Unschooling, Youth Empowerment
Influences John Caldwell Holt
Influenced Camp With Wings
Official website http://www.gracellewellyn.com/

Grace Llewellyn is an American educator, author, and publisher. Her work in the fields of youth liberation, unschooling and homeschooling is widely-regarded. She is the founder of Lowry House Publishers and founder/director of Not Back To School Camp.^[1]

[edit] Biography

In 1996 Ms. Llewellyn started Not Back to School Camp, or NBTSC, an annual camp for self-educated teenagers age 13-18. NBTSC offers a camper and staff-led activities which, in keeping with the philosophy of unschooling, campers can choose to participate in what they find interesting.^[2] In 2005 Llewellyn was working on a book of resources for teens who can't leave school. She lives in Eugene, Oregon.

[edit] Bibliography

Llewellyn's best known book is The Teenage Liberation Handbook: How to Quit School and Get a Real Life and Education (ISBN 0-9629591-7-0), which she was inspired to write after three years of teaching, and after discovering the work of John Caldwell Holt. Other books include

• Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School (ISBN-13: 978-0471349600) (with co-author Amy Silver) 2001
• Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don't Go to School Tell Their Own Stories (ISBN-13: 978-0962959127) 1993, 2005
• Freedom Challenge: African American Homeschoolers (ISBN-13: 978-0962959110) 1996

[edit] External links

• Grace Llewellyn's web site
• Llewellyn's bibliography
• Llewellyn's bibliography by "Glorious Generalists"
• The Not Back To School Camp website.