Categories: Age years 13+, All FKB Books, Cory Doctorow, Creative Commons, Fluent English, Grade 7+, science fiction, Young Adult
Little Brother is a young adult sci-fi novel by popular author Cory Doctorow. The book features a teenage hacker and his group of friends as they navigate San Francisco after a terrorist attack, ending up accused of involvement they rally social support in the fight against civil infringements and abuse of political authority. The topics …
Categories: Age years 13+, All FKB Books, Cory Doctorow, science fiction, Young Adult
For the Win, a young adult gaming sci-fi, is set in a futuristic world, gaming is becoming the new sweatshops of China, where underage workers are exploited. The youths involved attempt to rebel, while some in the West attempt to get in the game. Amazon says: “It’s the twenty-first century, and all over the world, …
Categories: Age years 13+, All FKB Books, Creative Commons, Fluent English, Grade 7+, Saita, Young Adult
For teachers everywhere, – an innovative teaching guide, which will help you inspire students and foster a love of learning. If you’ve just started out teaching, or you’ve been teaching for a while, but feel there’s something missing, this is a perfect workbook to inspire creativity in innovative learning methods. The book might also be …
Categories: Age years 13+, All FKB Books, Cory Doctorow, Creative Commons, Fluent English, Grade 7+, science fiction, Young Adult
In Pirate Cinema, a young adult sci-fi novel about piracy, more over, extensive over-criminalisation of it. A teenager’s piracy crime results in his whole family being cut off from the internet as a punishment. Feeling forced to leave his home in a combination of shame, shunning, and an overriding desire to keep hacking movies. Another …
Categories: Age years 13+, All FKB Books, Cory Doctorow, Fluent English, Grade 7+, science fiction, Young Adult
Homeland Cory Doctoroy YA novel about a hacktivist – In this, the sequel to Cory’s extremely popular Little Brother, the protagonist, a hacktivist, Marcus Yallow is again caught in a tricky situation. This time, he has information that will expose the corruption inside the government’s security contractors, but doing so can cost him his job. The …
Basic Book Design is a textbook suitable for high school students (and adults) all about basic book design. The book is provided by Wikibooks, in the creative commons under a GNU open document license. As a project for English, art or computer studies, creating a book should be a compulsory activity in schools. This book …
Categories: Age years 13+, All FKB Books, Creative Commons, Fluent English, Grade 7+, Maths, WikiBooks, Young Adult
High School Calculus is a text book that can be used to teach high school calculus in a classroom where no prescribed books are available, for setting additional homework, helping remedial or extension students at different levels, or as a home school text. The book can also suit as a text for a stand alone …
A definitive guide to the Harry Potter series, categorised into beginner, intermediate, and advanced. This book contains extensive information for book projects character studies, or any other Harry Potter related study. For Harry Potter fans, this is an amazing free resource. If you are looking for an amazing guide to everything Harry Potter you’ve found …
This writing textbook is a perfect text for a complete guide to writing, and suitable for aspects of introductory and advanced high school English students. The book contains a complete course in writing, from writing phases, drafting, editing, types of writing, to common phrases, word types, and improved use of English sentence structure, all explained in …
Categories: Age years 13+, All FKB Books, Creative Commons, Fluent English, Grade 7+, Maths, WikiBooks, Young Adult
High School Mathematics Extensions is a textbook with exercises and provides around 250 pages of advanced high school maths. The book makes a great addition to high school curriculum, as assistance to understanding maths problems, or as a workbook for homeschool or extending children. The topics are meant to advance and add on to high …