Secret Coders

Hopper is a 12-year-old girl who has just moved to a new town with her mom. She is the protagonist and the narrator of the story. Hopper is angry about the move and about starting school at Stately Academy, which she thinks is creepy. She is having a hard time making friends and later, it is revealed that she and her mom moved because her parents separated and also that her mom is the Mandarin teacher at her school, which further explains her anger about her situation. This conflict introduces the theme of Finding Your Place in a New Environment.

Hopper is interested in playing basketball, even though she doesn’t have a lot of experience, because she hopes her father will come to watch her games. She tries to befriend Eni by talking about basketball, but they don’t really become friends until they start solving mysteries about Stately Academy together and Eni teaches her about coding, introducing Computer Coding as a Fun and Accessible Discipline. Hopper is named after Grace Hopper, a computer scientist and admiral in the US Navy, and this legacy highlights the idea of

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