Here are the top 30 computers & technology books for 12 year olds. Please click Read Review to read book reviews on Amazon. You can also click Find in Library to check book availability at your local library. If the default library is not correct, please follow Change Library to reset it.
1. Getting Started with 3D Printing: A Hands-on Guide to the Hardware, Software, and Services Behind the New Manufacturing Revolution
by: Liza Wallach Kloski, Nick Kloski Release date: Apr 28, 2016 Number of Pages: 240 Find in Library Read Review |
Make: Getting Started with 3D Printing is a practical, informative, and inspiring book that guides readers step-by-step through understanding how this new technology will empower them to take full advantage of all it has to offer. The book includes fundamental topics such as a short history of 3D printing, the best hardware and software choices for consumers, hands-on tutorial exercises the reader can practice for free at home, and how to apply 3D printing in the readers’ life and profession. For every maker or would-be maker who is interested, or is confused, or who wants to get started in 3D printing today, this book offers methodical information that can be read, digested, and put into practice immediately!
2. Tools of Navigation: A Kid’s Guide to the History & Science of Finding Your Way
by: Rachel Dickinson Release date: Jul 01, 2005 Number of Pages: 160 Find in Library Read Review |
3. The Case of the Digital Deception (Club CSI Book 5)
by: Ellie O’Ryan Release date: Jan 29, 2013 Number of Pages: 160 Find in Library Read Review |
Ben, Corey, and Hannah have their work cut out for them when Whitney, the most popular girl in school, comes to Club CSI: for help. At first her case seems easy to crack—someone has been tampering with Whitney’s locker, and since her best friend Alyssa has the combination, she is a likely suspect.
But nothing is as simple as it seems, especially once the team learns that other strange things are happening around Whitney. Mysterious charges from a popular Internet drawing game have shown up on Whitney’s parents’ credit card. Whitney swears she didn’t authorize the charges, so who did? The digital drama increases when Club CSI: launches an online investigation—and to uncover the culprit, they’ll have to go undercover as players of the game!
© 2013 CBS & Ent. AB Funding LLC. All Rights Reserved. CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION in USA is a TM of CBS and outside USA TM of Ent. AB Funding LLC.
4. Adam Undercover, The Presidium Files
by: Aaron Foster Release date: Jan 12, 2015 Number of Pages: 358 Find in Library Read Review |
Adam Locke’s latest stunt finally gets him expelled from the ninth grade and shipped off to a stuffy private school. When it turns out to be an undercover organization in need of fresh operatives, he and his new classmate Emma begin their clandestine training. Intrigue, danger, and adventure follow the pair around the world as they learn how to use the gadgets, technology, and tactics at their disposal. During their country-hopping education, they uncover a grave threat to their new way of life and the organization itself. Can a pair of teenagers contend with an international criminal intent on revenge?
Check out book 2 of the Adam Undercover series, ‘The Consortium Directive’ coming Fall 2016.
5. Urban Outlaws
by: Peter Jay Black Release date: Oct 07, 2014 Number of Pages: 288 Find in Library Read Review |
Deep beneath the city live five extraordinary kids: world-famous hacker Jack, gadget geek Charlie, free runner Slink, communications chief Obi, and decoy expert Wren. Orphans bonded over their shared sense of justice, the kids have formed the Urban Outlaws, a group dedicated to outsmarting criminals and handing out their stolen money through Random Acts of Kindness (R.A.K.s).
But the kids find themselves in serious trouble when they’re caught in an epic battle to control Proteus, a genius super-computer. Proteus can crack any code in the world-and steal top-secret documents in nanoseconds. It’s down to the Urban Outlaws to use their guile, guts, and skill to destroy the computer, avert world domination . . . and stay alive.
Don’t miss the global launch of this debut series from Peter Jay Black-the perfect mix of explosive action, cool technology, and characters with lots of heart.
6. NetKids
by: NetGuide Release date: Nov 12, 1996 Number of Pages: 179 Find in Library Read Review |
7. Cool Tech
by: DK Publishing Release date: Jul 18, 2011 Number of Pages: 128 Find in Library Read Review |
Marvel at the technology that keeps you connected, from the ships installing lines deep in the ocean, the robots locating wire breaks, the satellites beaming signals across the earth, the teams retrieving and splicing lines together, to the servers directing and feeding internet traffic around the world. Plus, take a look back at the history of the internet, exploring the people and inventions that led to its creation and tour a virtual museum to see how the technology has progressed over the years changing the lives of ordinary people everywhere.
8. The Nexi Robot (Great Idea)
by: Toney Allman Release date: Aug 01, 2009 Number of Pages: 48 Find in Library Read Review |
9. Online Kids: A Young Surfer’s Guide to Cyberspace
by: Preston Gralla Release date: Feb 08, 1999 Number of Pages: 288 Find in Library Read Review |
You’ll find step-by-step instructions for great online activities:
* Make a fun-filled science museum at home.
* Create an up-to-date space shuttle mission log.
* Put together a personalized birthday photo collage.
* Design your own Web page.
* And much, much more . . .
Online Kids is also packed with expert advice on choosing the right online service, navigating the World Wide Web, sending e-mail, and keeping safe online.
10. Profiles #3: Tech Titans
by: Carla Killough McClafferty Release date: Jan 01, 2013 Number of Pages: 144 Find in Library Read Review |
It takes more than one person to bring about change and innovation. Explore the lives of the people who have had a huge impact on technology today. So much more than just your typical biography, PROFILES: TECH TITANS focuses on six of the most prominent figures in the technological world. This book includes all of the biographical information kids need to know (background, family, education, accomplishments, etc.) about Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Jeff Bezos–the men behind Windows, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon! Photographs and quotes will be interwoven throughout the text.
11. 3-D Engineering: Design and Build Your Own Prototypes (Build It Yourself)
by: Vicki V. May, Andrew Christensen Release date: Nov 17, 2015 Number of Pages: 128 Find in Library Read Review |
In 3D Engineering: Design and Build Your Own Prototypes, young readers tackle real-life engineering problems by figuring out real-life solutions. Kids apply science and math skills to create prototypes for bridges, instruments, alarms, and more. Prototypes are preliminary models used by engineers—and kids—to evaluate ideas and to better understand how things work.
Engineering design starts with an idea. How do we get to the other side of the river? How do we travel long distances in short periods of time? Using a structured engineering design process, kids learn how to brainstorm, build a prototype, test a prototype, evaluate, and re-design. Projects include designing a cardboard chair to understand the stiffness of structural systems and designing and building a set of pan pipes to experiment with pitch and volume.
Creating prototypes is a key step in the engineering design process and prototyping early in the design process generally results in better processes and products. 3D Engineering gives kids a chance to figure out many different prototypes, empowering them to discover the mechanics of the world we know.
12. Blackout (Urban Outlaws)
by: Peter Jay Black Release date: Jun 02, 2015 Number of Pages: 305 Find in Library Read Review |
Then the team meets Hector, an insanely talented hacker who even impresses Jack. The Urban Outlaws need his help, but can they trust him? It’s a risk that could mean winning big, or losing everything. . . .
This sensational sequel has all the makings of a blockbuster movie: non-stop action, cutting edge technology, and a high-stakes plot. But at the heart of this thrill ride is the story of five gutsy kids who will do anything to save the world-and protect each other.
13. Crisis Zero (Codename Conspiracy)
by: Chris Rylander Release date: Feb 02, 2016 Number of Pages: 400 Find in Library Read Review |
From Chris Rylander, author of the breakout hit Fourth Stall saga, comes the third book in the Codename Conspiracy series—an incredibly funny and clever mash-up of middle grade school story and spy adventure, perfect for fans of Gordon Korman.
There is a computer program so unspeakably powerful that its mere existence is unknown to all but the most senior government agents. This computer program is capable of controlling every aspect of communication, transportation, and defense on the planet. This computer program must never fall into the wrong hands or civilization as we know it will be utterly destroyed.
This computer program is in North Dakota.
Carson Fender, aka the retired Prank Master, aka Agent Zero, aka the all-in-one World’s Greatest Hero and World’s Greatest Screwup, must protect this program, codenamed Exodus. He is paired once again with his best friend, Danielle, aka Agent Atlas. Together, they must expose an enemy agent working from inside their school—an enemy agent with the mandate to stop at nothing to help secure Exodus. Can Zero and Atlas foil this enemy before it is too late? Carson’s final mission will test his loyalty, smarts, and courage as never before.
14. Engage the Brain: Games, Grade Five
by: Marcia L. Tate Release date: Feb 28, 2008 Number of Pages: 96 Find in Library Read Review |
15. The Flinkwater Factor (The Flinkwater Chronicles)
by: Pete Hautman Release date: Sep 01, 2015 Number of Pages: 256 Find in Library Read Review |
Welcome to Flinkwater, Iowa, home of the largest manufacturer of Articulated Computerized Peripheral Devices in the world. If you own a robot, it probably came from Flinkwater.
Meet Ginger Crump, the plucky, precocious (and somewhat sarcastic) genius who finds herself in the middle of a national emergency when Flinkwater’s computers start turning people into vegetables. Mental vegetables, that is. In Ginger’s words, they’ve been “bonked.”
When Ginger’s father is bonked, she recruits her self-declared future husband, boy genius Billy George, to help her find the source of the bonkings. Soon they’re up against a talking dog, a sasquatch, and a zombie, while Flinkwater is invaded by an army of black SUVs led by the witless-but-dangerous Agent Ffelps from Homeland Security. Can Ginger get to the bottom of the bonkings, or will computer chaos reign forever?
16. YouTube (Great Idea)
by: Adam Woog Release date: Aug 15, 2011 Number of Pages: 48 Find in Library Read Review |
17. Jeff Bezos and Amazon (Internet Biographies (Rosen))
by: Jennifer Landau Release date: Jul 15, 2012 Number of Pages: 127 Find in Library Read Review |
18. Spyrius Technology: Oz Imagined
by: John Connor Release date: Jul 05, 2015 Number of Pages: 248 Find in Library Read Review |
19. 12 Great Moments That Changed Internet History (Great Moments in Media)
by: Angie Smibert Release date: Dec 16, 2014 Number of Pages: 32 Find in Library Read Review |
20. 4Give and 4Get (TodaysGirls.com #9)
by: Kristi Holl, Terry Brown Release date: May 29, 2001 Number of Pages: 144 Find in Library Read Review |
The TodaysGirls plan a Mother’s Day singing performance, but what Alex Diaz doesn’t know-what everyone hides from her-is that she can’t carry a tune in a clear vinyl backpack. Even her backup musician tactfully encourages her to learn how to play an instrument. Events spiral to prevent Alex from discovering the truth about her voice, misunderstandings lead her to believe that her friends and her Mom actually can’t stand her. It takes the patient love of her Christian friends for Alex to realize that only through understanding can forgiveness come-forgiveness of her friends, for her mom, and even for herself.
21. Alan Turing (Profiles in Mathematics)
by: Jim Corrigan Release date: Jun 01, 2008 Number of Pages: 112 Find in Library Read Review |
22. Artificial Intelligence (Cool Science (Library))
by: Michael C Harris Release date: Sep 01, 2010 Number of Pages: 48 Find in Library Read Review |
23. Markus Persson (Notch) (Beacon Biography)
by: Tamra Orr Release date: Jan 01, 2015 Number of Pages: 32 Find in Library Read Review |
24. Computer Graphics (Calling All Innovators: A Career for You?)
by: Kevin Cunningham Release date: Sep 01, 2013 Number of Pages: 64 Find in Library Read Review |
25. CoderDojo: Build Your Own Website: Create with Code (CoderDojo Nano)
by: Clyde Hatter, CoderDojo Release date: Jul 28, 2016 Number of Pages: 96 Find in Library Read Review |
CoderDojo is the coding club that lets you hang out with other coders, learn new stuff and generally have fun with computers. This amazing CoderDojo book tells you everything you need to know to build your own website. Start by getting your very own Dojo Nano club up and running. All you need is one or more friends, a computer, and this book!
Then join the Nanonauts who are learning how to make a website for their band. They’ll be sharing their tips on HTML, CSS, and Javascript. With their help you’ll soon be able to create a website on any subject you can think of. Starting with the basics, you will quickly progress to the fun parts that make everyone want to visit your website: from adding photos to embedding Youtube videos and Google maps, to making your menu page something to marvel at. It’s all at your fingertips.
The best book on coding for kids aged 9 and up. There is no better place to start your coding adventure.
26. Computer Viruses (Lucent Library of Science and Technology)
by: Harry Henderson Release date: Nov 07, 2003 Number of Pages: 128 Find in Library Read Review |
27. Computers (21st Century Skills Library: Global Products)
by: Kevin Cunningham Release date: Dec 10, 2013 Number of Pages: 32 Find in Library Read Review |
28. Computers (What Can I Do Now?)
by: JG Ferguson Publishing Company Release date: Mar 01, 2007 Number of Pages: 202 Find in Library Read Review |
29. David Karp: The Mastermind Behind Tumblr (Gateway Biographies) (Gateway Biographies (Hardcover))
by: Karen Lathcana Kenney Release date: Jan 01, 2013 Number of Pages: 48 Find in Library Read Review |
Karp developed Tumblr after he tried to start a blog and found the process daunting. With most platforms, a blogger faces a huge, empty text box that begs to be filled with words. It was intimidating for a guy who’d never blogged before. Karp had the idea for tumblelogging–creating short blog posts–and built Tumblr as a platform. It lets users easily post both text and images, making Tumblr highly visual and expressive.
Creating a different way to blog came naturally to Karp, who never does things by the book. At fifteen, he dropped out of school. At seventeen, he moved to Tokyo, holing up with a computer and fine-tuning his tech skills. He returned to the states to build a business–but to do that, he stretched the truth. He used a deep voice on the phone with potential clients so they wouldn’t guess how young he was. He didn’t tell anyone how little experience he had. Yet people could see he had a good thing going with Tumblr. The company quickly found support and grew into what it is today: a groundbreaking site for connection and creation. And as the mastermind behind it, Karp is sure to remain a figure to watch.
30. Wikipedia, 3.5 Million Articles & Counting: Using and Assessing the People’s Encyclopedia (Digital & Information Literacy (Library))
by: Heather Hasan Release date: Dec 15, 2011 Number of Pages: 48 Find in Library Read Review |
Best Selling Books for 12 year olds:
- Action & Adventure
- Activities, Crafts & Games
- Animals
- Biographies
- Classics
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Technology
- Early Learning
- Education & Reference
- Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths
- History
- Holidays & Celebrations
- Humor
- Literature & Fiction
- Mysteries & Detectives
- Religions
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports & Outdoors
- Children’s Cookbooks
Recommended Books for 12 year olds:
- Action & Adventure
- Activities, Crafts & Games
- Animals
- Biographies
- Classics
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Technology
- Early Learning
- Education & Reference
- Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths
- History
- Holidays & Celebrations
- Humor
- Literature & Fiction
- Mysteries & Detectives
- Religions
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports & Outdoors
- Children’s Cookbooks
Best Selling Computers & Technology Books for:
- 8 Year Olds
- 9 Year Olds
- 10 Year Olds
- 11 Year Olds
- 12 Year Olds
- Teen & Young Adults
- 5 Year Olds
- 6 Year Olds
- 7 Year Olds
Recommended Computers & Technology Books for:
- 8 Year Olds
- 9 Year Olds
- 10 Year Olds
- 11 Year Olds
- 12 Year Olds
- Teen & Young Adults
- 5 Year Olds
- 6 Year Olds
- 7 Year Olds
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