Could someone point me to homeschool websites that offer used homeschooling books, and curriculum. I've looked and found lots of homeschool sites but few who offer the sell of used books. It seems when I looked several years ago, I found lots of them. I'm looking mainly for 6th grade books. Thanks

-- Carol in Tx (cwaldrop@peoplescom.net), November 05, 2000

Answers

Hi Carol, Try Ebay! Thousands of books are listed in their homeschool section! We buy a lot of our books there, sell a bunch, too! Good luck.

-- Deb (andersland@webound.com), November 05, 2000.

ebay is good,, just watch out for the bidding war,, you can end up paying more than a new book. also try,, www.half.com good place. What books are you looking for,,, bet there are a few of US that have extra copies or books we no longer need,, know I do

-- STAN (sopal@net-port.com), November 06, 2000.

Yes, I've bought 1-2 off e-bay but they get to high, more than retail sometime by the time you pay shipping. I've looking mainly for the ones I'm familiar with which are Abeka, Saxon Math, Alpha Omega for Math and L.A. but would consider others for the other subjects. He's in the 6th grade, he's smart but behind in Math so I thought I'd start him out in Saxon 6/5 (he'll think it's a 6th grade book) very important to him and dh that he doesn't get behind! I was thinking of testing him with the diagnostic test A.O. has for L.A. and putting him in it incase he has any learning gaps, maybe A.O.'s SOS for Science just to try out the CD-Rom thing to see if we like it, then was thinking of trying a unit study or just doing our own thing for Social Studies/History to see how we like that. I'm giving him a 2 week break to settle down, and that will give me enough time to get his stuff together. Even though were on a break he had a goverment lesson this a.m. when dh and I were talking about the election, he ask a few questions and for the ones we didn't have the answer to we looked up, then he decided instead of having a Accelarated Reading list, he would make up a "Home Readers List" he catalogged all his books then, we both rated the books with a point system we made up, and listed several rewards for him to recieve at the end of a month or 6 weeks whichever we decide for however many points he's accumalated. This similiar to the AR point system public school has, and I told him we didn't have to do it the way they did it, but I guess this is what he knows and it was his idea so I let him go with it. He normally doesn't read for pleasure. Thanks for the help I've gotten so far, hope this helps clarify more what I'm looking for. Carol

-- Carol in Tx (cwaldrop@peoplescom.net), November 06, 2000.

I wont be able to help with 6th grade, but I have Saxon 76 that I used for my 7th grade daughter who was behind in math( it's for 6th grade). I also have Alpha Omega gold pacs for science, history and geography, and language arts for 7th grade. This curriculum really didn't work well for her so the only the first and second workbooks are used. I think you can order those individually from AO to replace them. Just thought I'd let you know in case you were interested for next year.

-- Denise (jphammock@msn.com), November 06, 2000.

Carol, Go to www.vegsource.com., scroll down to homeschool in the discussion links, then go to the swap board. There is a BAJILLION listings there for used (and some new) cirriculum.

-- Julie (julieamc@excite.com), November 06, 2000.

I second Julie. Vegsource has more stuff than ebay and I think better prices. Plus you can sell YOUR stuff without having to pay any charges.

-- Kathy (DavidWH6@juno.com), November 07, 2000.

www.welovebooks.com When you get on to the site go to maple leaf resources.Theres a ton of stuff on there,and at canadian prices wow!!

-- teri (mrs_smurf2000@yahoo.ca), November 10, 2000.