Secret Coders: Paths & Portals [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.

There's something lurking beneath the surface of Stately Academyliterally. In a secret underground classroom Hopper, Eni, and Josh discover that the campus was once home to the Bee School, an institute where teachers, students, and robots worked together to unravel the mysteries of coding. Hopper and her friends are eager to follow in this tradition and become top-rate coders. But why are Principal Dean and the rugby team suddenly so interested in their extracurricular activities?

From graphic novel superstar (and high school computer programming teacher) Gene Luen Yang comes the second volume of Secret Coders,Paths & Portals, 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 Yang brings computer coding to life. Entertainment Weekly

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

Well-rounded, informative, and gamelike, this will appeal to plenty of graphic-novel fans. Booklist

Gene Luen Yanghas written and drawn many comics, including the hitAvatar: The Last Airbenderseries.American Born Chinesewas a National Book Award finalist, as well as the winner of the Printz Award and an Eisner Award. He also won theLos Angeles TimesBook Prize forBoxers & Saints. Yang lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Mike Holmeshas drawn for the comics series Bravest Warriors,AdvlÓ+