Secret Coders [Paperback]

Gene Luen Yang is the National Ambassador for Young People's Literature and is a MacArthur Fellow, a recipient of what's popularly known as the MacArthur Genius Grant.

Welcome to Stately Academy, a school which is just crawling with mysteries to be solved! The founder of the school left many clues and puzzles to challenge his enterprising students. Using their wits and their growing prowess with coding, Hopper and her friend Eni are going to solve the mystery of Stately Academy no matter what it takes!

From graphic novel superstar (and high school computer programming teacher) Gene Luen Yang comes a wildly entertaining new series that combines logic puzzles and basic programming instruction with a page-turning mystery plot!

This title has Common Core connections.

Gene Luen Yangs talent is prodigious, his enthusiasm contagious....Even this confirmed technophobe was ready to learn coding. Katherine Applegate, author ofCrenshawandThe One and Only Ivan

Gene Yang brings computer coding to life. Entertainment Weekly

Secret Codersnot only uses Logo but also touches on computer fundamentals like binary code and the three major ways that code is organized:sequence, iteration, and selection. By the end ofSecret Coders, readers will learn them all, right alongside Hopper and Eni, not as something dry or rote, but something transformative. Wired

Gene Luen Yangs talent is prodigious, his enthusiasm contagious....Even this confirmed technophobe was ready to learn coding. Katherine Applegate, author ofCrenshawandThe One and Only Ivan

Yang and Holmes do such a great job explaining the concepts that even programming newbies will be likely to catch on. A cliff-hanger ending hints at deepening mysteries to come. Bookll“W