Home Schooling Book Publishers???

Question:
I was wondering if anyone could tell me who publishes the best books for home schooling. I am particularly interested in middle school and high school ages. Also does anyone use software for teaching typing and accounting? If so, which ones are best.

Answer:
- Finding the best publisher for homeschooling books depends on your educational method and what will work best for your child. I put together my own curriculum (and have been doing so for 6 years) so I don't have any specific publisher to recommend. For our 9th grader we currently use Saxon for math and Exploring Creation with Physical Science (by Dr. Jay L. Wile) for science. For world history we use Streams of Civilization (by Mary Stanton & Albert Hyma). Mostly the book is used as an outline and we look for period literature and a variety of other sources to get a basic overview of what was happening and when it happened. I expect to let our 9th grader delve into the whys in historical periods that interest him. For Literature/ Composition we study well written literature and look for the reasons that it is well written and use that as a benchmark to compare his work with. You need a good foundation in the parts of speech and grammar to have this approach work well. We use Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing and have had great success with it. I don't know what else is out there because we are very satisfied with Mavis. We don't have any software that teaches accounting and I don't know about any software of that type on the market.