Free technology books for kids
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Or start with Be My RobotPicking one for your child
Every book here is sorted by Peabody's reading level, which is worked out from the text and never from the child. A lower level means shorter sentences and easier words, so start where your child can read about half of a book alone and read the rest together. If it is too hard, go down a level. If they race through it, go up.
A reading level is not an age
A twelve-year-old who asks how to drive, or how a drone stays up, wants a straight answer and may still read at a middle level. Each topic here is written three times: an easy version for about 7 to 11, a fuller one for about 10 to 13 and a detailed one for about 13 to 16, none of them babyish. The level in the table is how hard the words are. The ages above are who the book is for.
Safety and rules
Where a book touches a rule, such as where a drone may fly or how old you must be for a headset, it says it is the United States and that rules differ by state, and it names the page the rule comes from. The driving books explain what the controls are for and how a licence works. They never teach a child to start or drive a car.
For growing readers
10 are at levels 7 to 8: Be My Robot, The Thread That Glowed, Four Blades Up, How Does a Car Work?, One Person or Two Thousand, Under Two Seconds and more. Longer books, with more going on in each one.
For confident readers
23 are at levels 10 to 14: The Blue Dot and the Clocks, How Does Formula 1 Work?, How Do You Learn to Code?, How Do Drones Fly?, How Do You Learn to Drive?, How Are Video Games Made? and more. These are for children who read chapters and longer passages on their own.
Reading them together
A grown-up can read any of these aloud from a phone or tablet, one page at a time, and a child who reads can take over. Where a device can speak, the book page has a Read to me button that reads each page aloud in the device's own voice. Every book page has a Print link too, if you would rather read on paper.
More free stories
- The whole library: free stories by reading level, no account needed.
- Classic stories retold short: fables, fairy tales, myths and legends.
- Free nonfiction books for kids, one topic at three levels
- Free sports books for kids
- Free space stories for kids
- Free beginning reader books for kids just learning to read
- By level: Level 7 · Level 8 · Level 10 · Level 11 · Level 13 · Level 14
Questions parents ask
What reading level are these technology books?
They run across levels 7 to 14. Peabody works each level out from the book's text: how long the sentences are, how many words fit on a screen and how common the words are. The table shows the level of every book, so you can pick a lower or a higher one.
Are any of these books scary?
None carries a mark above gentle, and none is on the scary stories shelf. The short description on each book's page says what it covers, so read it first if your child is sensitive.
Do the books cost anything?
No. Every story on this page is free to read through the end of 2026, with no account and no card.
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Checked against how Peabody works on 19 October 2026. Written with help from AI, from Peabody's own code and library. Peabody is a learning app, not an assessment: if you're worried about your child's learning, talk to their teacher. How Peabody's pages are made.