Girls Who Code: Spotlight on Coding Club! by Michelle Schusterman, 137 pages. Penguin Workshop, 2018. $13.
Language: G (0 swears); Mature Content: PG; Violence: G.
BUYING ADVISORY: EL - ESSENTIAL
AUDIENCE APPEAL: HIGH
A group of five girls, with different interests and hobbies, all share one love - coding. In this book they work together to design online voting for the school talent show and one of the girls reveals that she has been experiencing anxiety since her dad left on a military mission. They work together to address both the coding and the anxiety.
I quickly liked this group of girls, although I did have a hard time telling them apart in the story. They are problem solvers and proactive. One of the characters has feelings for another girl, adding a gentle LGBT layer to the book.
Jen Wecker, HS English Teacher
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