This early music book teaches you everything you need to know about rhythm and tone to play simple tunes and scales on the piano. There is a section on rhythm which includes beats, key signatures, and rests, and provides exercises to clap to. There is a second section on tone that introduces the 7 whole …
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 …
A brother and sister wonder if there is such a thing as an invisibility cloak. Their search for information leads them to learn about all sorts of fabrics from linen and cotton to high tech fabrics, even a real potential invisibility cloak. Sample Text from Under the Invisibility Cloak Arnav and Tanisha loved to …
Categories: All FKB Books, Boats, Careers, Children, Editor's Picks, Grade 4 to Grade 6, Ognjen Livada, School Projects, Transport, Values, Vilim Livada
The Boy Who Loved Boats – Aaron loved boats, it was all he could think of. His parents appreciated his love of boats, but also wanted him to love his studies. A story based on the simple premise of love, a child’s love for boats, and parent’s love for their child, resulting in a simple …
Manatees and Dugongs, commonly named Sea Cows due to their vegetarian nature, are beautiful, gentle creatures, inhabiting shallow areas such as mangroves and estuaries in the warm equatorial regions. Learn more about these magnificent creatures in this book, aimed at early to mid elementary (primary) school children. The book is released in creative commons and …
Categories: Age 10-13 years, All FKB Books, Bullying, Fantasy, Friendship, Grade 4 to Grade 6
In Red Moon, White Moon, Connell Maxwell realized early on in life that school had a strict hierarchy: the bullies and the bullied. Unfortunately, he was doomed to be a member of the latter group. He always wondered if it was his friends who put him there, but, deep down he had another suspicion, his …
Categories: Age 6-9 years, All FKB Books, Animals, Behaviour, Cats, Fable, Grade 4 to Grade 6, moral, mouse, Mrs Arthur Bell, Older Children, Public Domain
Continuing on the Tales from the Sanskrit, this is a lovely story about nature and nurture. The story explores how, when the cat is trapped in a snare and asks for help, the mouse helps her, the owl waits to catch the mouse, and the cat kills the lizard, ultimately demonstrating how self-interest and opportunism can determine the fate of others, and that nature is hard to overcome.
This NOAA science activity textbook is packed full of scientific content and fun activities and experiments perfect for middle school and many are also suitable for lower high school. Science teachers, with experiments like these your classes never need to be boring again! From making your own compass and learning knots to building an underwater …
What will today bring is a picture book about a young child’s experience coping with disaster. This book is a great way for children to learn empathy for those facing civil disasters, to get inside the shoes of children displaced by natural disasters. This would be a very suitable story for classroom study when fundraising …



























