| Hello World! Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners
| "Computer programming is a powerful tool for children to 'learn learning,' that is, to learn the skills of thinking and problem-solving...Children who engage in programming transfer that kind of learning to other things."--Nicholas Negroponte, the man behind the One Laptop Per Child project that hopes to put a computer in the hands of every child on earth, January 2008Your computer won't respond when you yell at it. Why not learn to talk to your computer in its own language? Whether you want to ...More
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| The Klutz Book of Animation: How to Make Your Own Stop Motion Movies
| The Klutz Book of Animation is a complete how-to treatment of stop-motion magic, from practical instruction to ready-to-shoot scripts. The software you’ll need is available as a free download, ready to use on any computer (PC or Mac). All you need to provide is a video camera, a computer, and a way to connect the two. Attached to the book is a piece of low-tech, non-toxic clay, ready to be molded into a million different heroes starring in your very own fantastic animated films.Comes With: bl...More
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| Tetris
| This is a paranormal story about a computer illiterate woman, Anna Webster, who is trust into the world of industrial espionage when she receives a copy of a game disk, Tetris. She is troubled when one of her co-workers is killed and her roommate beaten to near death. This forces Anna to seek shelter at a cottage owned by her employer. It isn’t until the next generation computer she has access to at the cottage helps her uncover documents hidden in the Tetris directories on the disk. She along...More
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| Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak: Geek Heroes Who Put the Personal in Computers (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Inventors and Scientists)
| These books are without a doubt the definitive and most entertaining biographies of scientists for young readers. Author and artist Mike Venezia provides hilarious, cartoon-style illustrations to complement his easy-to-read text and full-color reproductions of the scientists' sketches and notebooks.
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| Robot (Eyewitness Guides)
| From robot wars to robots that play football, children can learn here about humanoids and artificial intelligence and discover how robots have evolved over the years. It supports the National Science Curriculum at Key Stage two and three
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| Easy Computer Basics, Windows 7 Edition
| See it done. Do it yourself. It's that Easy! Easy Computer Basics, Windows 7 Edition teaches you the fundamentals to help you get the most from your computer hardware and software. Fully illustrated steps with simple instructions guide you through each task, building the skills you need to perform the most common computer tasks. No need to feel intimidated; we'll hold your hand every step of the way. In full color Learn how to! / Set up and configure your new computer system / Upgrade your com...More
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| Steve Jobs: Thinking Differently
| A Simon & Schuster eBook
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| Three Little Firefighters (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) (Mathstart: Level 1 (Prebound))
| FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Three young firefighters must find matching sets of buttons to complete their costumes for a parade, but should they sort them by shape, color, or size?
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| My Weird School #18: Mrs. Yonkers Is Bonkers!
| Mrs. Yonkers, the computer teacher, is the nerdiest teacher in the history of the world. She can type with her feet! She buys foam cheeseheads off eBay! She even puts a Webcam on a turtle! Is she trying to take over the world?
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| Mousenet
| When ten-year-old Megan helps her uncle invent the Thumbtop, the world’s smallest computer, mice are overjoyed, and they want one for every mouse hole.The Big Cheese, leader of the Mouse Nation, has orders: follow that girl—even if it means high-tailing it to Megan’s new home on the other side of the country. While Megan struggles as the new girl, the mice watch, waiting for their chance. But when they tell Megan the biggest secret in the history of the world—mice have evolved, and they ...More
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| Virtual Vandals: Net Force 01 (Net Force YA)
| Here comes a Clancy first: a new series of novels for young adults starring a team of troubleshooting teens--the Net Force Explorers--who know more about cutting edge technology than their teachers!
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| Z. Raptor (Hunting)
| Thirteen-year-old Adam Adlar used to have a normal life. Then his father created the most advanced video-game technology ever-one that uses a person's thoughts to control game characters, so that the characters are actually part of you. And scientists stole this technology to create hyper-evolved dinosaurs with a human's ability to learn . . . and a beast's ability to kill. Now packs of raptors populate a deserted island where the only law is survival. For the death-row inmates who were forced t...More
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| Discovering Computers 2006: A Gateway to Information - Complete
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| Access Denied (and other eighth grade error messages)
| Computer whiz Erin Swift is ready to start eighth grade. The Year of Humiliating Events (aka, seventh grade) is behind her and she's ready to rule the school. But eight grade comes with its own set of problems for Erin to navigate, including her first boyfriend, her first break-up, and the fact that her mom has been treating her more like an eight year old than an eighth grader. Even worse, there's a new girl at Molly Brown Middle School who is determined to remake Erin in her bad-girl image, an...More
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| Gossip From the Girls' Room: A Blogtastic! Novel (Blogtastic! Novels)
| Diary of a Wimpy Kid for girls!Gossip from the Girls’ Room fills readers in on all there is to learn about middle school life at Middlebrooke, where Sofia has her very own blog and discusses all the juicy gossip that comes out of the Girls’ room; read along to find out just what happens when class is not in session. In Sofia's words . . . Mia St. Claire is only the most popular girl in all of Middlebrooke Middle School. For three very obvious reasons:1. She's very rich...More
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| Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and the Personal Computer (Graphic Library: Inventions and Discovery)
| Tells the story of how Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak developed the personal computer. Written in graphic-novel format.
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| Secret Identity (Identity Mystery Trilogy, Book 1 / Nancy Drew: Girl Detective, No. 33)
| Everyone knows about the online group BetterLife. But what starts out as a fun virtual reality site turns into a living nightmare for Bess's twelve-year-old sister and her friends when one of them becomes a target of cyberbullying! I create my own BetterLife profile to investigate how the program works and find out who could be targeting the girl and why. But nothing online is what it seems -- everyone is hiding behind their virtual identities. It's almost impossible to track down who is behin...More
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| Computer (DK Eyewitness Books)
| The most trusted nonfiction series on the market, Eyewitness Books provide an in depth, comprehensive look at their subjects with a unique integration of words and pictures. *Now reissued with a CD and wall chart! Eyewitness Computer gives readers an up close look at the machines that have come to define the modern world. From laptops to supercomputers, this book uses clear, crisp photography and engaging text to explain how computers work, the functions they serve, and what they m...More
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| Rumors from the Boys' Room: A Blogtastic! Novel
| Sofia Becker, Middlebrooke Middle School blogger extraordinaire, is back! And this time her gossip isn't only from the girls' room. The rumor mill is out of control at Sofia's school, so it's a good thing Sofia and her super-secret notebook can set everyone straight. Entertaining and funny, this second novel in the BLOGTASTIC! series by Rose Cooper features super-cute black-and-white illustrations . . . girls will love passing this book around with their friends!
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| How to Get ANYTHING for FREE!
| Amazing new book 103 pg book reveals industry insider secrets and little-known creative methods & strategies for getting absolutelyA N Y T H I N G at all totally and completely FREE! "World's Biggest Freeloader" finally reveals his closely guarded secrets for the first time ever!...Why some people almost NEVER need to pay for ANYTHING! THE FREELOADERS LIFESTYLE(They laughed when I told them that I would figure out a way to get anything for free... that was 21 years ago...now they are all my stud...More
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