Grace Llewellyn taught school for three years before leaving and writing The Teenage Liberation Handbook, which was first published in 1991. In 1996 she founded Not Back to School Camp, a gathering for unschooled teenagers, which continues to bring joy, inspiration, community, and interesting challenges to her life. Along the way there’ve been three other books*, two self-directed education centers—and plentiful failures, surprises, mistakes, mysteries, adventures, and life lessons. Grace loves every kind of dance, especially Argentine tango. She lives in Eugene, Oregon with her favorite son and their timid cat.
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- Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids A Real Education With or Without School, by Grace Llewellyn and Amy Silver (Wiley, 2001)
- Real Lives: Eleven Teenagers Who Don’t Go to School Tell Their Own Stories, edited by Grace Llewellyn (Lowry House, 2005)
- Freedom Challenge: African American Homeschoolers, edited by Grace Llewellyn (Lowry House, 1996)