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Five Great Books for Kindergarten to Fourth Grade: Homeschool Reading.

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Are you looking for some fantastic kids’ books to read this winter with your children? Or maybe you need some grab-and-go books for the kids to read independently. Well, look no further than this great list of children’s books. 

Here are five fantastic kids’ books from kindergarten through fourth grade to add to your home library. Each of these books is by Brie Wetherby. You can find these and almost 100 more great listings on her author page! 

Kindergarten: Turtles are Always Rollin’ 

Turtles are Always Rollin’ is an easy-to-read children’s book that features an adorable and brightly colored turtle as the main character. This book also has repetitive and simple words to help kids learn basic reading skills and a variety of sight words like roll, hill, the little, etc. Turtles are Always Rollin’ offers fun full-color illustrations to help keep kids’ attention pointed toward the story. 

You can get Turtles are Always Rollin’ on Amazon in an ebook or paperback format. You can access the book for free if you have a Kindle Unlimited subscription, too. 

Turtles are Always Rollin' by Brie Wetherby

First Grade: Bunnies, Hamsters, and Friendship, Oh My!

Bunnies, Hamsters, and Friendship, Oh My is a collection of five stories for first graders. These stories are easy to read, sight word focused, and center around small animals and a few little girls who are best friends. The small animals include bunnies, hamsters, and wild animals like birds and snakes. If you have a reader still working on reading independently, this is the book for you. This book is the perfect collection of stories for kids to read independently because the words are easy to sound out. 

You can get Bunnies, Hamsters, and Friendship, Oh My on Amazon. It is available in ebook, paperback, or hardcover format. You can also get it via the Kindle Unlimited program. 

Bunnies, Hamsters, and Friendship, oh MY

Second Grade: If the Three Bears Made Gingerbread. 

If the Three Bears Made Gingerbread is a spin on two classic stories. It combines “The Three Bears” and “The Gingerbread Man” in a funny way. The main character is the gingerbread man who escapes from the oven as Baby Bear watches over it. Of course, the Gingerbread Man takes off running and outruns various creatures, though he isn’t always chased. This book is written at a second-grade reading level and is meant to be a humorous rendition of both classic stories. With whimsical watercolor illustrations set in the backdrop of a wintery forest, it is perfect for reading with a delicious cup of hot cocoa on a cozy winter afternoon. 

You can get this book on Amazon in ebook or paperback format. You can also access it via Kindle Unlimited. 

If the Three Bears Made Gingerbread

Third Grade: Life of Mantis

Life of Mantis blends fantasy and facts to teach kids about the praying mantis in a fun and exciting way. The story weaves in various facts about the lives of praying mantises. It also focuses on their stages of development. However, instead of a human studying the praying mantis, the praying mantis is studying a human house. This story is bound to make any third-grader laugh. 

You can get Life of Mantis on Amazon in ebook or paperback format. It is also available for free with the Kindle Unlimited membership. 

Life of Mantis (2)

Fourth Grade: The Case of the Missing Axolotl

The Case of the Missing Axolotl is a collection of 10 short mystery stories geared towards fourth-grade readers or to serve as a bedtime story collection for kids who are a little younger. Each of the ten stories features a new axolotl, a new way it goes missing, and a happy ending when the mystery is solved. If you are into mystery books, this book is also part of a series that features equally interesting mysteries like The Case of the Missing Mermaid and The Case of the Missing Sloth. 

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You can get all of these books and more by Brie Wetherby on Amazon. These books are available in ebook and paperback formats and are part of the Kindle Unlimited Program. 

The Case of the Missing Axolotl

What is Kindle Unlimited? 

As you have seen, each of these books, and pretty much all of Brie Wetherby’s children’s books, are available for free with a Kindle Unlimited subscription. But what is that? Kindle Unlimited is a subscription service offered by Amazon that allows subscribers to access a vast library of ebooks, audiobooks, and magazines. For a monthly fee, users can borrow and read as many books as they want from the Kindle Unlimited catalog, which includes a wide range of genres and topics. It is easily searchable by category on Amazon if you just want to browse the books available. Or you can search for individual books to see if they are part of the subscription.

How Can Kindle Unlimited Benefit Homeschoolers?

The benefit of Kindle Unlimited is that it can serve as a cheap library with millions of books for homeschoolers to access right from the comfort of their homes. The collection is simply enormous and includes not only ebooks but also audiobooks. This is particularly beneficial for homeschooling families as it provides access to a wide variety of educational materials from fiction to nonfiction and easy readers to more complicated chapter books. 

You can access these books on any device by downloading the Kindle App. So, you don’t need to have a Kindle device to take advantage of this cheap library subscription. 

Another advantage of having a subscription to Kindle Unlimited is that users can keep Kindle Unlimited books as long as they want, with no due dates. This allows homeschoolers to work at their own pace and revisit materials whenever needed. However, you can only currently have 20 items checked out at a time. 

Amazon often offers a free trial period for Kindle Unlimited, allowing users to explore the service and decide if it meets their needs before committing to a subscription. Be sure to check out these trial periods around the holidays!

Conclusion

There is a wide variety of books available for kids of every age range via the Kindle Unlimited program. You can get many of Brie Wetherby’s books for free with such a subscription. Wetherby writes children’s books with fun illustrations for elementary-age kids. This blog post goes over a popular book at each grade level that you can read from her personal collection of authored books. 

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