Favorite Places to buy books: 

• Thrift Books: Sign up with a free account, sign up for their free Reading Rewards program, and do a $30 order and you'll get a FREE BOOK!!
• AbeBooks.com: Another great place for used books. Thrift Books is my go to but I always check Abe as well. 
• eBay is a terrific source for finding whole series or individual books. There's a book seller on eBay (Second Sale) who offers Buy 3 books under $5 and get 1 free. I've gotten soooo many books from their shop. You can find all their book deals here. 

I keep a running list on my phone of ALL the books in our library in order in series. I find books all the time in thrift stores and at consignment stores. Having a running list on my phone allows me to buy random books in series for super cheap without forgetting which books we have and which we need! 

Where I find new book recommendations per age/grade:

It can be SO hard today to know where to find good book recommendations. I still vet books from these places but they help so much in finding great new grade appropriate reads! 

• Veritas Press: Their website can be super confusing. But if you narrow it down by Literature and then by grade level, you can find some good classic suggestions as well as literature guides! 
• Beautiful Feet Books: Their website is super awesome. You can narrow down book selections by subject (history, science, electives) and by grade level. You can then view all the amazing books and read-alouds they include for each subject/grade level. 
• Simply Charlotte Mason has some good book suggestions per grade level. 
• And Sonlight is a fantastic resource! Their entire homeschool curriculum is built around good solid books (both fiction and non-fiction). Search for their curriculum kits per grade/age and then you can see ALL the books they include in each program. Sonlight is always my first go to resource. 

Our Favorite Chapter Books Series for Kids: 

*When applicable, I linked to the Thrift Books series page because they do a great job of showing you the books in the right order!*

• The Sterling Spectacles (Books #1-6 are out so far with 43 planned in the series. Not a "Christian" series but written by a Christian Dad of 7!)
• The Kingdom of Wrenly 
• Dragon Masters (Apparently there is a non-binary dragon(s) in a later book (We haven't gotten there yet)
• Imagination Station (Christian books that are so fun!)
• 100 Cupboards 
• Redwall 
• Cajun Kids Adventures 
• Who Was/Is (Secular publisher with some books and topics we don't buy)
• The Last Firehawk
• History Lives Series (Terrific Christian biographies)
• The Secret of the Hidden Scrolls (Great Christian historical fiction series)
• The Happy Hollisters (BACK in print!)
• Little Lights
• Christian Heroes Then and Now (TERRIFIC biographies for kids)
• Heroes of History (by the same authors of the above series, but about historical figures, not just Christians)
• Wingfeather series (Intense book series might be too intense for little readers)
• Growly
• Little House on the Prairie
• The Chronicles of Narnia
• The Lord of the Rings 
• Magic TreeHouse (We own the entire first series books 1-29) and Merlin's Missions (the second series)
• Charlie Bone (we haven't read these ones yet) 
• A Series of Unfortunate Events (Might be too intense for young readers)
• The Penderwicks
• How to Train Your Dragon (excellent for boys!)
• The Vanderbleekers
• Fablehaven (for older readers)
• The Green Ember
• The Land of Stories
• Warriors book series (There's a whole bunch of series in this world)
• I Survived (We use these for school reading a lot)
• Wayside Stories 
• Guardians of Ga'hoole
• Ranger in Time Series

• Gargle with warm salt water several times a day

• Spray colloidal silver 3 times per day

• Use Earthley’s throat spray as often as needed (this has been helping immensely! It contains peppermint, echinacea, elderflower, lemon balm, and mullein.

• Lots of bone broth sipping throughout the day. 

• My lymph nodes are so swollen, but I can’t find my Lymphatic cream! I would be using this 2-3X a day if I could find it!!

• And then lots of immune boosting things like: Elderberry Elixir, Immune-biotic tincture, and a really good Vitamin C.

Can you tell I love Earthley? They have become my go to for supplements!! They are very affordable (tinctures last forever), they run sales often, and they don’t ever compromise on ingredients! I looove their line up of stuff! Most of my pregnancy and postpartum essentials come from Earthley too! 

We print and bind all of our homeschool materials ourselves. It saves us SO much money. Check out my printing & binding favorites here: https://www.amazon.com/shop/influencer-3a3b49fb/list/NRLCLUIW0JK5?ref_=aipsflist_aipsfinfluencer-3a3b49fb 

The past 2 years, we've really been working our first aid and preparedness stock of stuff. Here's all of our favorites: https://www.amazon.com/shop/influencer-3a3b49fb/list/1AHYHWM5OIQCG?ref_=aipsflist_aipsfinfluencer-3a3b49fb 

I'm on a mission to build up our library of books in our house that feature real skills. I've been collecting healthy living and homesteading books for years. Here are our favorites: https://www.amazon.com/shop/influencer-3a3b49fb/list/1P5WSMGZNBRQW?ref_=aipsflist_aipsfinfluencer-3a3b49fb 

Want to check out all my favorite cookbooks? Here you go: https://www.amazon.com/shop/influencer-3a3b49fb/list/2EVBHOXIZVZ1W?ref_=aipsflist_aipsfinfluencer-3a3b49fb 

Here's a list of most of my kitchen favorites: https://www.amazon.com/shop/influencer-3a3b49fb/list/2HEYY68DSY9Q9?ref_=aipsflist_aipsfinfluencer-3a3b49fb