Read the story
Meet the ideas through characters, scenes, conflict, and discovery.
About the book
The Constitution Kids
A time-travel civics adventure that turns constitutional ideas into moments readers can feel, question, and remember.
The book follows young travelers as they step into pivotal moments in American history and discover how rights, limits, responsibility, and civic power became part of everyday life.
Format
Paperback + ebook
Audience
Families, students, educators
Learning path
Story to civics topic
The story
A civics book built around curiosity, not memorization.
The Constitution Kids follows a group of young travelers who encounter the ideas, conflicts, and choices that shaped American civic life. The story does not lecture. It invites readers to think, question, and decide what those ideas mean today.
Each chapter introduces a core civic idea as something alive in the world: power, limits, rights, responsibility, representation, courts, public debate, and the choices citizens keep making together.
Learn the Constitution
Use modules and topics to unpack the civic concept behind each scene.
Teach the idea
Turn the same book connection into classroom prompts, activities, and quick checks.
Media
Watch, share, and introduce the book.
Book trailer
A quick look at the story world and the energy behind the civic adventure.
Discover the story →Awards reel
Recognition from Mom's Choice Awards and Chanticleer International Book Awards.
See coverage →Author interview
Gary Gabel joins The Chris Voss Show to talk about the book and why civics needs story.
Meet Gary →Reviews and recognition
Award recognition, reader reactions, and proof points in one place.
The book has earned family-friendly award recognition and reader responses that point to the same thing: civic learning works better when it has a story to hold onto.
Resources
Everything around the book, connected.
One-page book overview
A printable snapshot for parents, schools, libraries, and bookstore conversations.
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Press kit
Cover art, author materials, awards, quick facts, and shareable media assets.
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Book modules
Follow the curriculum spine from story scenes to civic ideas, learning topics, and teacher kits.
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Web reader
Read on the site and move from the story into mapped learning resources.
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For educators
Use the book with a class.
The site now connects the book to learning modules, civic topics, teacher kits, classroom pilots, and future assessments.
Teacher toolkit
Build a classroom kit from a topic or book module with prompts, activities, vocabulary, and checks.
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Pilot a classroom set
Use the book with students and help shape the next layer of story-driven civics learning.
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Sponsor a classroom
Help a class receive books and teacher-ready resources.
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