For grades 6 and up, Click’d is the story of an app that causes some unintended consequences and what she and her friends learned from this.
Books
There are so many excellent CS-Related Books out there. Here are a few to get you started!
Fiction
For grades 5 and up, this series follows a group of girls as they learn about programming and being a good friend.
For grades 4 and up. Read this book to learn about how Hopper and her friend Eni use their wits and prowess with coding to solve the mystery of Stately Academy!
Great for grades K-3 - Whether face to face or far away, find out how Sonia--and you!--are part of the digital world!
For grades PreK-3, Popcorn is, quite simply, the friendliest chicken at Fiddlesticks farm! When she finds a Fabulous Friend Machine in the barn, she sets about making some brand new friends. But behind the screen of the Fabulous Friend Machine, maybe her new friends are not so friendly after all...
For grades PreK-3, The Secret Birthday Message can also be used as a fun spring board for teaching some basic concepts. As Publishers Weekly notes: “The book introduces pattern recognition, matching shapes, map-reading, and directional relationships in a way that allows preschoolers to participate fully in the enticing adventure.”
For grades PreK-3, A coding adventure about a brilliant inventor and her runaway robot, Rox's Secret Code aims to inspire the next generation of female leaders in STEM!
For grades 9 and up, this is a complicated twist of virtual reality, social media, and 5 intertwined stories.
For MS and up, these fairy tales can serve as an introduction to advanced CS topics to MS & HS students.
For grades 3-7; story is about Emmy who connects to a new school and friend through CS and music.
Perfect for grades 4 and up; Key lessons in software development taught from a wizard’s perspective.
Great for grades 4 and up; Lauren is lost in a forest and learns a lot of advanced CS topics from characters and problems she encounters.
Published in more than 20 languages, this book series is intended for ES students to learn the fundamentals of CS.
For grades 1-4, this is the story of how Ada Lovelace saw CS as “poetical science”.
For grades K-2, this book introduces students to one of the most famous heroines in CS history.
For grades PreK-3, this is one book in the “How to Code” series that helps students see algorithms are everywhere.
NonFiction
For grades K-2, this full-color picture book biography about Dorothy Vaughan, one of NASA’s first African American managers and one of the groundbreakers on the front line of electronic computing―includes hands-on STEM activities for an introduction to coding.
For HS students; this book was written to make algorithms that are important in modern CS problems easier to understand.
For HS students; Introduces you to the math you need to practice advanced programming and analysis of algorithms.
For HS students; broad introduction to the puzzles embedded in the world of CS.
Great for advanced MS and HS students; author connects our desire to communicate with each other to how computer hardware and software works.
For MS students and up, this book walks readers through the history of code breaking.
For MS students and up; read about the evolution of video games including the creative thoughts of designers.
Great for grades 1-4; small flaps exist throughout the book to give kids a chance to interact with the book and learn beginning ideas in CS.
For PreK - grade 6, this is the story of the first computer and the first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace.
Intended for PreK - Grade 3, this is a chance to introduce students to an influential character in CS history.