The Camp attracts teens from all over the United States, Canada, and other countries. In 1996, Grace founded Not Back to School Camp for unschooled teenagers, which she continues to direct each year in Oregon and West Virginia. With the goal of helping people, mostly teenagers, take more control over their own lives and educations, she has also spoken to groups and conferences, given workshops, directed a resource center, produced a mail order book catalog, published a newsletter, and written articles. She has since edited Real Lives: eleven teenagers who don’t go to school and Freedom Challenge: African American Homeschoolers, and written Guerrilla Learning: How to Give Your Kids a Real Education With or Without School with co-author Amy Silver. Llewellyn published it in 1991 through her publishing company, Lowry House Publishers. Grace Llewellyn taught school for three years before unschooling herself and writing The Teenage Liberation Handbook at the age of twenty-six. The center is an alternative to traditional school that follows the 22-year tested Liberated Learners model pioneered by North Star.
Since 2017, Llewellyn has directed The Hive: Self-Directed Learning Center for Teens. The activities range from kung fu to cob-oven building to Zimbabwean singing to college applications, reflecting the talents and interests of staff and campers. It offers campers support in pursuing varied avenues of education by connecting them with a pool of unschooling peers and an eclectic staff.
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