Hidden Systems
Hidden Systems uses graphic storytelling to unpack the infrastructure teens rely on daily—electricity, water, and internet—while exploring the science, history, and equity behind the systems shaping our world.
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Ages12-18
Grades6th-12th
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Product Code117-358
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2026 Twelfth-Grade Curriculum Kit
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Hidden Systems: A Graphic Novel
Your teen uses electricity, water, and the internet every day—but how often does he stop to consider how those systems actually work? Hidden Systems explores the history, design, and future of the infrastructure that unobtrusively powers daily life, covering everything from water systems and fiber optics to the electric grid through graphic-novel storytelling and detailed illustrations.
Along the way, students examine how these systems developed, how they changed over time, and how access, design choices, and historical decisions continue to shape the world today.
Because the book combines engineering, history, environmental topics, and social considerations, it naturally encourages students to think beyond simply how systems function and begin asking why they were built the way they were.
This National Book Award Longlist title also earned recognition from the NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book list and the New York Public Library’s Teen Books list for making complex systems approachable without oversimplifying them. Students interested in engineering, technology, infrastructure, or simply understanding how everyday systems work will find plenty to explore here.
Note: Includes evolutionary content. Parents may wish to preview before use.
Your teen uses electricity, water, and the internet every day—but how often does he stop to consider how those systems actually work? Hidden Systems explores the history, design, and future of the infrastructure that unobtrusively powers daily life, covering everything from water systems and fiber optics to the electric grid through graphic-novel storytelling and detailed illustrations.
Along the way, students examine how these systems developed, how they changed over time, and how access, design choices, and historical decisions continue to shape the world today.
Because the book combines engineering, history, environmental topics, and social considerations, it naturally encourages students to think beyond simply how systems function and begin asking why they were built the way they were.
This National Book Award Longlist title also earned recognition from the NSTA-CBC Outstanding Science Trade Book list and the New York Public Library’s Teen Books list for making complex systems approachable without oversimplifying them. Students interested in engineering, technology, infrastructure, or simply understanding how everyday systems work will find plenty to explore here.
Note: Includes evolutionary content. Parents may wish to preview before use.
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- January 23, 2025
disappointed
Darla
Now that I am on this site, I see the comment about the evolutionary assumptions. I am disappointed it was included in the religious kit. I would never have bought it on its own. My daughter did not feel like she learned anything new or interesting from the book to outweigh all of the evolution talk.
