Cracking the Code: Women Who Have Changed the Way We Look at Computers tells the true story of the many women who have made significant contributions to the world of code and technology. We hear about the women who are behind the development or use of the sophisticated technology we have today, including Vandana ‘Vandi’ …
How the Children Became Stars is a collection of 52 fables and folk tales from all over the world. The folk tales provide important morals and life lessons, and help foster an understanding of other cultures. Each folk tale has an activity at the end, which makes it perfect for classroom or home-school use, and …
In an Introduction to Biology, a textbook for upper elementary and middle grade, published by Wikijunior, we learn about a range of topics, including a detailed look at the human body and cells, and an overview of kingdoms, archaea, bacteria, protists, fungi, plants, and animals. This text is available in creative commons (CC-BY-SA), so you …
Toby Rush creates a fun and engaging way to learn music theory, and this is his introductory selection of pages available, detailing notation: pitch, notation: rhythm, notation: meter, the major scale and major key signatures, the circle of fifths, intervals, and minor scales and circle, and dynamics and articulations. This is a perfect resource for …
Categories: Age 10-13 years, Age years 13+, All FKB Books, Creative Commons, Grade 4 to Grade 6, Grade 7+, Maths, Non-Fiction, Science, Siyavula, Young Adult
Siyavula provides an amazing, comprehensive, well-presented set of free maths and science textbooks, based on the South African school syllabus. The maths and science textbooks contain around 500+ pages and cover all learning content for each year, with worked examples, practice questions, sample papers, linked videos, and many books also provide a separate teacher guide. …
Instead of just reading books, aspiring young authors can now make their own book and share it! Spark imagination with the most popular children’s book genres and learn about story structure and creative writing. In this book, Write your Own Horror Book, there are enchantingly scary image prompts of ghouls, witches, cauldrons, skeletons, and much …
This Chess ebook is a guide to the game in clear concise simple instructions. This guide is suitable for beginners with no knowledge to intermediate players who want some guidance on notation and tactics. What does Chess teach? Chess is an amazing game for children to learn and play (…offline!), it challenges skills of strategy, probability, …
The Barnyard Buddies STOP for Peace – Teaching kids conflict resolution – is an endearing picture book with an important lesson on life skills. The animals in the story have a problem, someone is not sharing. As they lament over their woes, anger rises, and with anger is chaos. Until one wise friend gives a …
Categories: Age 10-13 years, All FKB Books, Behaviour, Bullying, Grade 4 to Grade 6, Ishan Khire, Older Children
Ishan Khire is back with a wonderful treatise on life in middle school. In this book Ishan will have to face the biggest challenge of his life: middle school. Suddenly, from arts and crafts week and eating mac and cheese with juice boxes at lunch, he’s thrust into an environment with 6 foot giants they …
If you keep a secret, there’s a reason. It is usually to protect yourself or someone else. This story explores the issues of secret-keeping and the consequences that can arise. Quote about the book: “This cautionary tale shows how a simple mistake ends up being blown into a police matter where the accused is innocent, …