Dr. Akash Garg

The K–12 Interactive Library

52 books, one for every grade and subject from kindergarten through twelfth. Each is a single page that opens in any browser, works offline, needs no login, and is built to be used rather than read.

52Books
4Format bands
13Grades
K–12Complete

Four format bands, keyed to reading ability rather than to age. A book for a five-year-old and a book for a seventeen-year-old are not the same object with different words in it. The youngest band is audio-first and tap-only because its reader cannot read; each band above it hands more of the work to the text.

Foundation

Grades K–2 · Audio-first · 12 books

Nothing to read. Every question is spoken, answered by tapping, and there are no wrong answers - only a nudge and another try.

Bridge

Grades 3–5 · Reading begins · 12 books

Short chapters in large type, one interactive per idea, and a read-aloud button that is still there when it is needed.

Reading to Learn'+esc(B.sub)+'Third grade is the year reading changes job. Up to now you learned to read. From here you read to learn - and that needs a different set of tools.Open → Multiplying and Fractions'+esc(B.sub)+'Two big ideas arrive in third grade - multiplication and fractions - and almost everything later leans on them. This book takes both slowly.Open → Forces and Living Things'+esc(B.sub)+'Why things move, why animals look the way they do, and how rocks remember creatures nobody ever saw.Open → Communities and Maps'+esc(B.sub)+'How places work, why people settled where they did, and what it takes to share a town with other people.Open → Reading, Writing, Thinking'+esc(B.sub)+'Fourth grade asks not just what a text says but what it means, how it is built, and whether you should believe it.Open → Big Numbers and Fractions'+esc(B.sub)+'Multi-digit multiplication, long division, fractions that actually add up, and the first proper look at angles.Open → Energy, Earth and Life'+esc(B.sub)+'Where energy comes from and where it goes, how waves and light work, and how the ground under your feet got that way.Open → Regions and Government'+esc(B.sub)+'Who was here first, why people moved, how government was built, and how to research the place you actually live.Open → Evidence and Argument'+esc(B.sub)+'Quoting accurately, spotting how writers steer you, and building an argument somebody would take seriously.Open → Decimals, Fractions and Volume'+esc(B.sub)+'The year fractions stop being pictures and start being numbers you calculate with - plus volume, coordinates and reading data honestly.Open → Matter, Earth and Ecosystems'+esc(B.sub)+'What everything is made of, where a tree's mass really comes from, and how energy and matter move through a living world.Open → The American Story'+esc(B.sub)+'United States history from before 1492 to 1900, told with the parts that are usually left out put back in.Open →

Core

Grades 6–8 · Full chapters · 12 books

Real chapters with glossaries, check-yourself questions and an interactive that has to be worked rather than watched.

Reading Closely'+esc(B.sub)+'Central ideas, how writers build characters and tone, how arguments work, and how to tell whether a source deserves to be believed.Open → Ratios and the Start of Algebra'+esc(B.sub)+'Ratios, percent, negative numbers and the first real algebra - the year mathematics starts being about relationships rather than arithmetic.Open → Earth and Space'+esc(B.sub)+'Moving plates, deep time, weather and climate, the ocean, and the solar system - the sciences of the very large and the very slow.Open → The Ancient World'+esc(B.sub)+'From the first cities to the fall of Rome - across Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, Greece, Rome and Africa.Open → Argument and Media'+esc(B.sub)+'How persuasion works, how to judge an argument, and how to read the media environment you actually live in.Open → Proportions and Probability'+esc(B.sub)+'Proportional reasoning, negative numbers in full, inequalities, circles, and the beginning of real statistics.Open → Life Science'+esc(B.sub)+'Cells, body systems, genetics, natural selection and ecosystems - how living things work and how they change.Open → The Connected World'+esc(B.sub)+'World history from the end of Rome to about 1750 - Islamic science, imperial China, the Mongols, the Renaissance and the Columbian Exchange.Open → Evidence, Craft and Voice'+esc(B.sub)+'How scenes work, how allusion compresses meaning, how to spot irrelevant evidence, and how to build an argument that holds across pages.Open → Functions and Geometry'+esc(B.sub)+'Exponents, irrational numbers, functions, systems of equations, transformations and Pythagoras - the year that sets up high school algebra.Open → Physical Science'+esc(B.sub)+'Atoms, reactions, forces, energy, waves and light - plus how engineers actually solve problems under real constraints.Open → Founding and Division'+esc(B.sub)+'United States history from the colonies through Reconstruction, read as a set of arguments about power rather than a list of events.Open →

Upper

Grades 9–12 · Course length · 16 books

Course-length books written at the depth a high school class actually needs, including the parts usually smoothed over.

Algebra I: Functions and Modeling'+esc(B.sub)+'Variables, functions, systems, quadratics and exponentials - and how to turn a real situation into mathematics and back again.Open → Algebra II: Functions and Inference'+esc(B.sub)+'Complex numbers, polynomial and rational functions, logarithms, trigonometry, series, matrices and statistical inference.Open → Biology: Life and Evolution'+esc(B.sub)+'Molecules, cells, energy, inheritance, evolution and ecology - plus how to judge a health claim and how to think about gene editing.Open → Chemistry: Matter and Change'+esc(B.sub)+'Atoms, bonding, the mole, energy, solutions, equilibrium and organic chemistry - plus what chemistry has done to the world, for better and worse.Open → Economics: Choice and Systems'+esc(B.sub)+'Scarcity, markets and where they fail, how the economy is measured, where money comes from, and the personal finance nobody teaches.Open → English 10: World Literature and Argument'+esc(B.sub)+'Reading across traditions and in translation, and building arguments that hold up under logical scrutiny.Open → English 11: American Literature and Rhetoric'+esc(B.sub)+'Founding documents read as arguments, American literary movements, and rhetorical analysis at the level of the individual sentence.Open → English 12: Literature, Language and Inquiry'+esc(B.sub)+'Critical approaches, Shakespeare, advanced poetry and the novel, plus running an independent inquiry and writing for the world outside school.Open → English 9: Close Reading and Argument'+esc(B.sub)+'Reading closely enough to have something to say, and building an argument about a text that a skeptical reader would take seriously.Open → Environmental Science: Systems and Choices'+esc(B.sub)+'Feedback loops, cycles, energy, climate, water, biodiversity and policy - with the trade-offs stated rather than smoothed over.Open → Geometry: Proof and Space'+esc(B.sub)+'The course where proof arrives - congruence, similarity, trigonometry, circles and solids, and what they are used for.Open → Government: Power and Participation'+esc(B.sub)+'How government is structured, how rights work, how elections translate votes into power, and where individual participation actually matters.Open → Physics: Motion, Energy and Fields'+esc(B.sub)+'Motion, forces, energy, momentum, waves, electromagnetism and thermodynamics - plus where the classical picture breaks down.Open → Precalculus: Toward Calculus'+esc(B.sub)+'Functions as objects, trigonometric identities, vectors, conics, polar form, and the first real look at limits, rates and accumulation.Open → US History: Arguments Over Power'+esc(B.sub)+'American history from the founding to the present, read as a continuing argument about who holds power and on what terms.Open → World History: Connection and Power'+esc(B.sub)+'From the first states to the present, organized around what connected societies, what concentrated power, and how we know any of it.Open →

Beyond the 52

Open materials · standards reading list and full textbooks

The books above were written for this library. These are the school materials themselves — the texts the standards actually name, and complete open-licensed textbooks — gathered, checked and labelled.

Storytime Grades K–5 · illustrated 58 screened public-domain stories, 27 of them full picture books with the artwork embedded so they work with no internet. Read-aloud on every page. Open → The Reading Room Common Core Appendix B All 329 text exemplars the standards list, grade band by grade band. 31 are public domain and included in full, offline. The rest are marked to find at a library.Open → Open Textbooks Free · openly licensed 26 complete peer-reviewed textbooks from OpenStax, each paired to the high school course it supports, with its exact licence shown. Open → Sources & Licences Attribution Every source used, and the exact terms it comes under — including what could not be hosted and why.Open →