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Ready to teach.
No prep.
Money Nobody Taught You, Teen Edition is 15 illustrated story books that teach teens how money works, one rule per book, with the guides, workbook and quiz tools to run it in about 10 minutes a day.
Teacher and principal toolkits are free. Student books and workbooks come with a school license.
Open the free toolkits →What you get
Everything for your class, in one place
Books, guides and classroom tools come together, so there is nothing to build yourself.
15 illustrated story books
One continuing story with the same crew of teens across the series. Each book teaches one money rule, from currency and inflation to credit, investing, scams and wills.
Teacher guides
Read-aloud guides with a page per book: where to stop, talk questions and a first-day script. About 10 minutes a day, no prep. Includes the quiz answer key.
Student workbook
Printable “Spot it” and “Try it” pages for every book, with the same short quiz at the start and at the end.
Parent letter
A ready-to-send letter that tells families what their teen is reading. Parents can preview the materials too.
Class scorer
A spreadsheet for the before-and-after quiz that prints a one-page Principal Report. It stays with your school; we don’t collect it.
Every-learner support
Read-aloud and free text-to-speech steps for common devices, quiz accommodations (read aloud, extra time, IEP/504), and tips for reaching tough students.
In your classroom
Ready in 5 minutes
The teacher guide walks you through each book day by day.
- Day 1
Give the pre-quiz
It’s the first page of the workbook: 10 short questions, ungraded.
- Day 1
Hand out Book 1 and the workbook
Use the first-day script in the teacher guide.
- Each day
Read aloud about 10 minutes
Follow the day-by-day guide: where to stop, talk questions, then “Spot it” and “Try it” workbook pages.
- After Book 5
Give the post-quiz
The same questions, on the last page of the workbook.
- Last step
Print the Principal Report
Type the 1s and 0s into the class scorer and print a one-page report. If you like, share your class averages (never student names) on the Feedback & Results page.
Every learner
- Read aloud and show the panels on a screen. Partner reading works well too.
- Free text-to-speech already on your devices: PDF in Microsoft Edge, EPUB in Google Play Books, Kindle, iPhone and iPad, Android, Chromebook, Windows and Mac. Steps are on the Every Learner page.
- Quiz accommodations: you may read it aloud, give extra time and follow any IEP/504 accommodations. It’s ungraded.
- Tough crowd? Give students a job: read a character’s lines, be the money detective, run the calculator or lead the “Spot it” hunt.
See full results · Teachers: share your class results
How to preview
Look before you teach it
Read the materials first. Parents can preview too.
Open the toolkit
The teacher guides, workbook, parent letter, class scorer and every-learner page open right in your browser. No code, no login.
Read a book preview
Each of the 15 books opens as a preview without a code: the cover and the first two chapters, so you can see the story and the panels.
Request your free classroom code
The free first classroom needs an access code. Request it from Paul with the free-code form. The code unlocks the full books on your classroom computer (one computer per code).
Classroom pricing
Your first classroom is free, with an access code
Try it with real students before anyone pays anything.
First classroom
Every school’s first classroom.
$0free
Nothing to sign or pay, no card
- All 15 books and every teacher material
- Access code required: request it from Paul
- Stop anytime
Whole-school license
For every teacher and classroom in the building.
$2,499/ year
$1,499 / year for the first 25 founding schools
- All 15 books and every teacher material
- No auto-renew unless you choose it
- No student data collected
Unchecked: one payment for one school year; it does not renew. Checked: renews yearly until cancelled.
The free first classroom needs an access code from Paul. After that, a whole-school license covers every teacher and classroom for one school year. See the Principals page or all pricing.
Good to know
- We don’t collect student or school data. Your quiz results stay in your copy of the class scorer.
- Sharing results, reviews or quotes is always your school’s choice, and only with your permission.
- Not financial advice: the books are stories that teach money ideas.
Who’s behind it. Paul Blankenburg, author: a former oilfield instructor and frac mechanic in Fort Worth, who writes about money the way he fixes a pump: plain and useful. Books 1 and 2 are published on Amazon Kindle.
Questions go straight to Paul at blankenburg6@gmail.com.
Try it with your class
Your first classroom is free with an access code. Request your free code from Paul.
blankenburg6@gmail.com