The all girls coding club is back in the next installment of Girls Who Code, written by Jo Whittemore. This one is called Lights, Music, Code!. While Maya’s passion is fashion, she loves what coding can add to her world, however rough that world seems at the moment as her past comes back to haunt her. The coding club is all excited to use their coding talents to add something exciting to the next school dance. Just as they start to work together to put together an amazing addition to the dance, Maya’s friend from the past, Nicole, starts to stir the pot and cause trouble. Maya learns a great lesson of what true friendship means and what it takes to own up to one’s past and learn from it.
The Girls Who Code series is a timely series with the push for STEM and coding in the schools. In Lights, Music, Code! the girls have fun applying coding to making the school dance a little more exciting. It’s fun to see how coding can be applied to so many different aspects of life. From light-up dresses to lights that pulse to the beat of the music, coding is certainly more fun than just putting numbers in a computer.
Girls Who Code: The Friendship Code is another book in the Girls Who Code series.
Review is of an Advance Uncorrected Galley
This book was sent to Compass Book Ratings for review by Penguin Workshop
Content Analysis:
Profanity/Language: 2 religious exclamations.
Violence/Gore: Description of video game violence given that includes mention of cutting off a trolls head with a dagger; character is forcibly grabbed by the wrist.
Sex/Nudity: None
Mature Subject Matter:
Brief mention (no details given) of divorce and death of family member.
Alcohol / Drug Use:
None
