Girls Who Code

Children's Book and Media Review Volume 39 | Issue 9 Article 33 2018 Girls Who Code Kristie Hinckley Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cbmr BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Hinckley, Kristie (2018) "Girls Who Code," Children's Book and Media Review: Vol. 39 : Iss. 9 , Article 33. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cbmr/vol39/iss9/33 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the All Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Children's Book and Media Review by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact , . Hinckley: Girls Who Code Book Review Girls Who Code Author Stacia Deutsch Illustrator Reviewer Kristie Hinckley Rating Excellent Level Primary, Intermediate Lucy, a middle schooler, is excited for coding club to start. But when coding club isn’t what she expects, Lucy has to find a way to learn how to code on her own. When someone sends her on a secret scavenger hunt of sorts filled with coding clues, she gets excited, but is also confused and suspicious. The girls, with a little help from Lucy’s mostly annoying brother, write code in order to catch the culprit. In the end, it’s their coding club advisor who was the coding clue culprit the whole time! The group of four girls become a permanent coding club group and plan to win the Hack-a-Thon that’s coming up. Girls Who Code includes diverse girls of different races with different challenges, including divorce in family. This book has a sweet message that girls with different backgrounds and interests can still be great friends. In addition, girls can like a field that males are commonly interested in. Several coding concepts, including input and output, conditionals, variables, and loops are mentioned in the book. Tween girls with some coding experience will especially enjoy this book. Pages 136 Year 2017 Publisher Penguin Random House ISBN 9780399542510 Published by BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018 1  (...truncated)