The Books
I write this site and I write these books. Saying so here and on every page that mentions one is deliberate.
What the books are, and what they are not
The site is written for you, the adult. The books are written for the teenager, to be read and worked through without an adult in the room. That is the actual difference, and it is most of why both exist.
They are not a premium version of this site. Nothing on this site is a teaser. Every page here answers its own question completely, and if you never buy anything you have lost nothing.
Financial Literacy for Teens
Forty short chapters covering money for readers aged roughly 13 to 17: where money goes, how to get it in, where to keep it, making a plan, why spending feels the way it does, borrowing and credit, and what happens later. Each chapter is the same shape, a few pages long, with a worked example and a write-in page.
It covers the ground this site’s first jobs, accounts and spending sections cover, in a teenager’s language rather than a parent’s, and built to be worked through in order rather than searched.
Reading age: written to be understood by a thirteen year old. Deliberately, and it was measured, not assumed.
Print: 6 by 9 inches, paperback, with a Kindle edition.
Choosing between them
If your teenager will read something on their own, the book is the better object, because it is sequenced and it is theirs.
If you are the one who wants the answer, and you want it in ninety seconds with the source attached, that is what this site is for. Start with the tools if you want something concrete to do today.