Home-Based Businesses

Looking for a good deal? These home school families sell books and supplies at great prices. Support family businesses! These listings supplied by our readers; we don't personally vouch for these. If you experience any difficulty with any business we've listed, please notify the webmaster!

Alpha Textbooks offers resources for students or for entire schools. Shipping throughout Canada!

American Home-School Publishing offers a wonderful catalog of history, Latin, Greek, and reading resources.

Beloved Books offers used "living books" and "life-building audio resources."

Bookpeddler offers a wide variety of homeschool resources: Charlotte Mason, Saxon, Greenleaf, and more.

Books To Learn is an Usborne book site with reviews, teacher ideas, and more.

Bright Ideas Press offers resources for science, history, and geography.

Builder Books, owned by Bob & Patty Alberg, has been evaluating and selling home school materials since 1983. They ship by mail order, Internet and also have a store in Lynnwood, Washington.

By Way of the Family, in St. Paul, offers discounted curricula for home schoolers.

Carnivorous Plants: Sells venus fly traps for science fair projects and living science lessons. They offer a 10% discount to homeschoolers (put a note in the "comments" section that you're a homeschooled family).

Children's Books in South Carolina offers great discounts. Visit their website for a catalog and information, but order by phone.

Chinaberry carries a fascinating selection of books, story tapes, games, puzzles, and "treasures."

Classical Home Education offers a diverse collection of quality homeschooling products from a wide array of publishers.

Cottage School Press, Inc.: offers history curriculum for homeschool and co-ops; grades 1-8.

Country Christian is an Ohio-based, family-owned bookstore that also offers software and links to Ohio home school support groups.

Curriculum Connection offers "homeschool supplies at discount prices."

Discount Home-School Supplies offers deep discounts on supplies and books as well as on popular curricula (Alpha Omega, Saxon, etc.)

The Elijah Company has been in business for twelve years; visit the website to order a catalog from this highly-regarded family bookseller.

Exodus Books in Oregon City, Oregon is run by a home school graduate!

FamilyFun101.com offers quality products, information, home school supplies, and materials that are educational, fun and creative for the whole family.

Geography Matters offers ideas, projects, and supplies for teaching geography.

Harvest Educational Products offers many of the curricula we recommend and also offers curricula planning by phone.

The Hedge School: Curricula and books for Catholic parents who home school and afterschool, along with diagramming resources for everyone.

His Way Homeschool Resources: A home school family selling new and used curriculum for over 10 years.

History Portfolio: A hands on history help for homeschoolers, modeled after the Charlotte Mason Book of Centuries, but tailored to fit the four year cycle of Ancient, Medieval, Renaissance, and Modern history.

Homeschoolmaster.org sells homeschooling supplies including microscopes, dissection materials, and labware.

Homeschool Classifieds has hundreds of listings from individuals wanting to buy or sell curriculum. Listings are free, instantly posted, arranged by title and category, and kept up-to-date. The site also carries used biographies, histories, and devotional books (with cover scans) at great prices.

Homestead Books provides both new and used resources for home schoolers.

Home4School Gear offers many of the items recommended in The Well-Trained Mind.

Home School Emporium, from the Leggewie Family, includes many resources and specializes in historical fiction by G.A. Henty.

Home Training Tools sells science curriculum, supplies, kits, books, etc., at good prices. They have everything from microscopes down to lab items under a dollar. For the various science curricula they sell, they offer pre-assembled packages of needed lab supplies.

Honed Edge Books stocks books for children, inspirational fiction, history, textbooks, and parenting issues to "sharpen the mind, and enlighten the spirit."

In His Steps is a Denton, Texas family business supplying home school books, with an emphasis on Bible and history.

The Ink Spot, owned by the Houston family, is a homeschool/family business that sells supplies for your printer. They carry remanufactured (recycled) laser toner cartridges, ink refill kits and replacement cartridges for inkjet printers, and ribbons for many other printing machines.

The Inklings Bookshop, in Lynchburg, Virginia carries resources for classical Christian education and takes online orders. You can find them at

Jonathan's Journey, written and sold by Katherine Bell, gives a "big picture" survey of the Bible.

The Joshua Company sells many books that are recommended in The Well Trained Mind, including Phonics Pathways; Pyramid; Slow and Steady, Get Me Ready; Science in a Nutshell kits; and Usborne books.

Judaica for Kids ("Cool Stuff for Jewish Kids") offers educational materials and books as well as toys, games, and other items.

King David's Harp offers resources for the study of ancient music.

Kunker Hill Publications provides the Keepers at Home household organizer for busy moms.

Lifetime Books and Gifts is the Farewell family business; they offer a wide variety of books, including many in the classical curriculum.

Sandi Strenkowski's Living Learning Books is a science curriculum-activity guide based on Well-Trained Mind recommendations.

MainStreet Bookends is a Warner, NH bookstore and art gallery that supports local artists and authors as well as offering books, toys, games, art supplies, and more. It's run by the homeschooling Nevins family.

Memoria Press, founded by the author of Latina Christiana, publishes several courses in Latin, logic, rhetoric, and classical studies.

Miami Phillips offers "Project Coaching for You and Your Business." Call (404) 597-6000 (Dallas, Georgia); a free newsletter is available by e-mailing WeeklyWisdoms-subscribe@topica.email-publisher.com

Nest Entertainment dealer Beth Noble: Incorporating Biblical integration with academic objectives through great characters like Jesus, Leonardo DaVinci, and George Washington.

Nothing New Press is Christine Miller's family business, publishing texts for classical Christian homeschoolers.

Oliver's Mom, based in Potomac, MD, and operated by Vivian Adkins, offers homeschool, enrichment, and remedial resources.

Paidea Classics is an Orthodox publishing company that publishes "literature from the past" for home schooling families — their website has free texts for downloading as well.

Peace Hill Press publishes history, science, and language resources for classical educators. Run by Susan Wise Bauer, Peace Hill Press offers "books for the Well-Trained Mind."

Pfeiffer House Music offers homeschool music curricula for Kindergarten through Fourth Grade.

The Phunny Farm offers free unit studies for home school families: music history units, supplementary units to the Beautiful Feet Holling C. Holling study science units, and more coming soon.

Queen Homeschool Supplies specializes in Living Books for all ages in all subjects, Nature Journals & Notebooks, Literature-based Unit Study Guides, Games, and products that reflect a Charlotte Mason style of learning.

Rainbow Resource Center, run by Bob and Linda Schneider, offers lots of WTM-recommended resources (and much more) at a discount.

R.O.C.K Solid, Inc. is a Christian supplier of both books and home school supplies.

Schola Latina offers Latin curricula, focusing on introductory-level texts.

Seven Pillars Book Service offers both used books and resources for "living history."

Shekinah Curriculum Cellar has a huge selection of books and supplies and features same-day shipping for orders placed before 3 PM.

Solterra Books is run by a homeschooling family, and offers books and resources to other homeschooling families.

Stephanie's Bookshelf offers curricula and used books for those using classical and Charlotte Mason methods, and those who wish to self educate.

Succeed By Thinking specializes in discounted Critical Thinking Press books and software.

Timberdoodle has great science, art, history, sewing and sign language resources (and more).

Tony's Terrific Book Bargains has a wide selection of resources for homeschoolers and teachers.

Tree of Life School specializes in classical education; offers classical texts as well as the option of a personalized classical program for your family.

Usborne books are sold by individual dealers.

Valerie's Living Books is a resource for those looking for older and out-of-print books. Valerie also has her own list of home school booksellers.

Veritas Press, the Detweiler family business, offers classical materials for home and school.

World As We Knew It, run by home school mom Nicola Manning, is a used book service specializing in children's books. And you can trade in your own used books!

Our product is Easy Timeline Creator—a software program that allows the user to make timelines on their computer. (Last year I sent Susan Wise Bauer a sample of our product to review.) Our web site is www. Our family is in its ninth year of home schooling using the classical method.

Lamp Post Homeschool Store specializes in homeschool-friendly curriculum and offers one-stop shopping.

A Heart for Home offers a homeschool planner that is perfect for Charlotte Mason and Classical homeschooling. We have extra room for all those things we need to write down that regular planners have no place to write (field trips, books read, copywork, memorization, etc). It also has 52 weeks instead of 36 for those who school year-round.

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Bright Minds, The Critical Thinking Company at Home — independent Bright Minds Consultant, Sandee Wright, offers the books and software recommended by TWTM through her company Edu Resources.

Alpacas of Fair Meadows Farm, Eva Gallagher and her homeschooled family sell alpacas, llamas, spinning fiber and tools, fleeces, yarn, and related goods.