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There are so many excellent CS-Related Books out there. Here are a few to get you started!

Fiction

Girls Who Code

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. 

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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...

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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.”

NonFiction

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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.