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Publish Date: Feb. 26 2019
Interest age, years: From 8 To 11
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<p><b>Read the complete Secret Coders saga from start to finish! This deluxe boxed set collects all six volumes of the action-packed graphic novel series by <i>New York Times</i>–bestselling author Gene Luen Yang<br> </b><br> <b>Plus includes a set of six collectable character cut-outs of your favorite Secret Coders characters! <br><br> </b><i>Secret Coders</i><br>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. <br><br> <i>Secret Coders: Paths & Portals</i><br> In the last volume, Hopper and Eni discovered a robot in the supply closet and programmed him to do mischief. Now they’re trapped in an underground lair, and they must use their new programming skills to escape.<br><br> <i>Secret Coders: Secrets & Sequences</i><br> Hopper, Eni, and Josh won’t rest until they’ve learned the whole story of the Stately Academy, but they aren’t the only ones interested in the school’s past…<br><br> <i>Secret Coders: Robots & Repeats</i><br> Dr. One-Zero has added a new class to Stately Academy’s curriculum. But in “Advanced Chemistry,” they only teach one lesson: how to make Green Pop! <br><br> <i>Secret Coders: Potions & Parameters</i><br> At long last, the Coders have found Hopper’s missing father—but he’s not the same. He drank Professor One-Zero’s poisonous concoction, Green Pop. Now he’s in a blissful stupor and all he cares about is the color green.<br><br> <i>Secret Coders: Monsters & Modules</i><br> The Coders always knew their programming skills would take them far, but they never guessed it would take them to another dimension! To save humanity, they must travel to the two-dimensional world of Flatland. But to open the gateway, they must first write their most difficult code yet!</p>, <p>”Gene Luen Yang’s talent is prodigious, his enthusiasm contagious . . . Even this confirmed technophobe was ready to learn coding.” —Katherine Applegate, author of <i>Crenshaw</i> and <i>The One and Only Ivan</i><br><br>”<i>Secret Coders</i> not only uses Logo but also touches on computer fundamentals like binary code and the three major ways that code is organized . . . Readers will learn them all, right alongside Hopper and Eni, not as something dry or rote, but something transformative.” —<i>Wired</i></p>, <p><b>Gene Luen Yang</b> writes, and sometimes draws, comic books and graphic novels. As the Library of Congress’s fifth National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, he advocates for the importance of reading, especially reading diversely. His graphic novel <i>American Born Chinese</i>, a National Book Award finalist and Printz Award winner, has been adapted into a streaming series on Disney+. His two-volume graphic novel <i>Boxers & Saints</i> won the LA Times Book Prize and was a National Book Award finalist. His nonfiction graphic novel <i>Dragon Hoops</i> received an Eisner Award and a Printz honor. His other comics works include <i>Secret Coders </i>(with Mike Holmes), <i>The Shadow Hero</i> (with Sonny Liew), as well as <i>Superman Smashes the Klan</i> and the Avatar: The Last Airbender series (both with Gurihiru). In 2016, he was named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow.<br><br><br><br><b>Mike Holmes’s</b> comics can be seen in <i>Bravest Warriors</i>, <i>Adventure Time</i>, <i>True Story</i>, <i>This American Drive</i>, <i>and Animal Crackers: Cricus Mayhem</i>.</p>
