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I found these sites to be really helpful.

www.Abeka.com

www.hslda.org

This is the home school legal defense association, they have an auction for textbooks and other resources. Click on the 'organizations' on the left hand side of the page, then scroll down and click your state- this is local home school groups that will give you a resources to pull from.

http://www.hslda.org/laws/default.asp?State=FL Found this one in my search thought you might want to read it.

Pray all goes well.

I'm in Florida, too, though on the other coast.

Some places to try:

Local homeschool support groups. Even if they aren't your style (such as: are for a religion that you don't adhere to), contact local homeschool support groups and ask them about used curriculum sales. Some groups are still having them this month. Some groups even have used curriculum give-aways each month where people get rid of stuff that they didn't end up using or don't want, they may be banged up or slightly written in, but can be well worth the trouble. Even if they aren't having a sale, you can often ask at group meetings, or on email lists, whether anyone has something to sell.

The local public library. Ours all have areas where they sell donated books to raise funds for the library. Sometimes curriculum materials can be found there or at thrift stores or used book stores. They are the kind of thing where you have to try repeatedly, they can be hit-or-miss.

And of course, the public libraries often have textbooks on the shelves that you can check out. Or you can use non-textbooks as textbooks; for instance, most libraries have lots of science books that can be used in leiu of textbooks.

Online. There are lots of Yahoo groups devoted to selling used homeschooling curriculum. Or you can use eBay (though they no longer allow sales of teacher's editions) or Vegsource or other such websites.

Local schools. Our school district used to have a place where they offered unwanted books free to the public. Most were old and beaten up, but they still had some life left in them. Some were pristine. Our school district no longer does this, but they say that you can contact individual schools and ask about materials that they no longer want (you've just got to manage to get to the right person when they aren't too busy--so, if someone turns you down, don't give up; try again.)

Hello,

We homeschool our 11 year old son, & we live in KS, we too pick & chose what course he takes, that is outside of what he is SUPPOSE to be studying too.

We buy alot of our stuff online, I will list the websites at the end of this for you. But, I also wanted to let you know too, that I have been lucky to also find used textbooks at local thrift stores. And Ive also been lucky to get the sisters of charity's help too in finding textbooks for him too.

Also look at other local homeschool groups, the reason I say so, is becuase sometimes those people sale those books they no longer need, I know myself I have a few that I no longer need.

I wil tell you this, I have found some texts better then others out there, the names I love & my son loves are: ABekka, McGraw-Hill, Scott Foresmen.

I hope this helped you out too.

I home school my 3 children. We order our materials from Alpha Omega Publications. www.alphaomega.com My older two had some difficulties at first since it is more bible based than anything in public schools. And it was a bit more advanced than what they had been used to, but they soon adjusted and did rather well. My youngest started with it and has not had any problems with it. I didn't choose it because of the biblical basis, but rather the content. I did teach in the public school system for several years grade 1-8 every grade but second. The price is not high at all for this curriculum. You can buy as much or as little as you want. When you child gets into 9th grade, they offer online high school. They even have online or telephone help for students and parents. You may want to check this out.

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I used to live in GA, and now I live in TN, and there are places called "The schoolbox" where my mom got SOME of our information, but she also enrolled us in a homeschooler program, so I was able to get a degree. But the schoolbox is the best there is.

I purchase textbooks each year for my 14 yr old daughter's home studies. I've used both Prentice Hall and McDougal-Littell, but have found McDougal-Littell to be the best.

Good luck! :)

Your best and most inexpensive bet is to buy them online. That's how most homeschoolers get the materials they need, especially for that age level.