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Sophia and her coding club BFFs have the best time together. Sure, they work on coding projects, but mostly they gossip about crushes, eat cookies, and do totally silly impersonations. Now they’re about to participate in their first hackathon—a full day of coding and meeting other coders—so it’s time to step up their game!
Just when Sophia and her friends think their hackathon project is ready for the big time, a change of plans threatens to tear their group apart. Will they have each other’s backs, or are they destined for an epic fail? They know that coding is all about teamwork and problem-solving—maybe friendship is, too!
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October 31, 2017 -
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- ISBN: 9781524786649
- File size: 2214 KB
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- ISBN: 9781524786649
- File size: 2214 KB
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- English
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- ATOS Level: 4.6
- Lexile® Measure: 660
- Interest Level: 4-8(MG)
- Text Difficulty: 3
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Kirkus
September 1, 2017
Hackathon participation is jeopardized by a scheduling conflict.Latina sixth-grader Sophia Torres is excited about her first hackathon: an all-day coding event with prizes. Each team receives components and modules to build a robot to attempt a maze, so the girls from The Friendship Code (2017) talk algorithms and pseudocode to plan out how they'll make their Rockin' Robots entry stand out. Sophia hopes her busy mother will be able to come support her, but instead her parents drop a bombshell: the night before the hackathon registration deadline, they tell her that she must miss it to babysit her sisters (an 8-year-old on the autism spectrum, a 5-year-old, and a 2-year-old). The hackathon has a strict, plot-determined rule: if any registered participant can't attend, the whole team must withdraw. Sophia gambles her team's eligibility on her ability to convince her babysitter-averse parents to compromise. After blaming Sophia (saying she should have told the team sooner), they tease her with the possibility of a babysitter: her father gives her an extensive list of chores she must complete for him to "consider" letting her go. Once the team learns, they surprise Sophia by helping her complete her domestic duties and arranging for the babysitter so she can participate. Evidently the moral's about asking for help; regressive ideas and plot-driven, questionable parenting are never addressed. The diverse cast also includes white, black, and Asian teammates as well as a new-to-the-team girl from Pakistan (who, curiously, gives their robot an Arabic name rather than, say, an Urdu one) and a dark-skinned boy Sophia has an age-appropriate crush on. A disappointing second outing in a series that began with promise. (Fiction. 8-12)COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.
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The Horn Book
January 1, 2018
These first two novels rise above the series' explicit, potentially heavy-handed goals of female empowerment, inclusivity, and representation, telling interesting stories with appealing characters. �cf2]Friendship�cf1] introduces coding and espouses collaboration and communication as Lucy and her new coding club friends solve coded clues with real-life applications; �cf2]Race�cf1] finds club member Sophia using problem-solving in their robotics competition and her family life.(Copyright 2018 by The Horn Book, Incorporated, Boston. All rights reserved.)
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- English
Levels
- ATOS Level:4.6
- Lexile® Measure:660
- Interest Level:4-8(MG)
- Text Difficulty:3
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