National Homeschool Book Award
What is the National Homeschool Book Award?
The NHBA is a readers' choice book award designed to
recognize and celebrate current juvenile fiction that explores learning
experiences occurring outside the traditional classroom setting and that resonates
with homeschool readers. show more
The award program was created
by a group of literature-loving homeschool moms who feel that kids learning at
home have a unique perspective to offer on books. The National Homeschool Book
Award provides a way for the estimated 2 million
homeschool kids across the U.S. to express their collective voice and encourage
authors to continue to write great books that speak to them!
Sign up for voting information and updates!
Read more about how the NHBA was created.
The 2011-2012 Nominees
In The Candymakers, four unique kids are brought together at the Life Is Sweet candy factory to compete in
making a delicious new candy. While the basic premise may sound familiar, this story
is an entirely new experience! Almost nothing about the kids is as it seems at first
glance, and the surprises keep coming as the mystery unfolds... Read more.
Selling Hope - Kristin O'Donnell Tubb
Selling Hope is a
fantastic example of really entertaining historical fiction based on a fascinating time in U.S. history that is not often represented.
Hope McDaniels is a young girl traveling the small-time vaudeville circuit
with her Walt Whitman-quoting illusionist father, who uses their show to help "educate the masses..." Read more.
My Name is Mina is the story of a charming and imaginative homeschooled girl living in the U.K.
who is dealing with the death of her father and adjusting to a new life at home alone with her mother. This book is unique in that it's written and designed to sound and look like a journal kept by Mina,
full of all her wonderings and thoughts about life... Read more.
Wonderstruck is an amazing book containing the threads of two stories:
one about a boy living in Minnesota in 1977 whose mother dies and leaves
him in the care of his aunt and uncle; and the other about a deaf girl
living across the river from New York City in 1927... Read more.
Join In!
Being a part of the National Homeschool Book Award is
free and simple! We announce the four nominees in November. You and other
homeschoolers around the world read the four
books. Then, let your voice be heard by placing your vote for your favorite in
October! The winner is announced in November.
In between, there will be opportunities to learn more about the books and their
authors through blog posts featuring information on topics in the books and ideas
for activities that you can do together to enrich your reading, as well as a
how-to on starting a NHBA book club in your community.
Sign up for voting information and blog updates!