In the Key of Code

<p><b>An original inventive and heart-warming novel from an exciting debut author about a lonely new girl and an unlikely friendship formed in a school code club that will appeal to fans of Sarah Crossan.</b><br><br>When twelve-year-old Emmy&#146;s musical family moves to California so her dad can take a job with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Emmy has never felt more out of tune. But when she ends up in a school computer science club she finds that she can understand code through a language she is familiar with: music. Slowly Emmy makes friends with Abigail and the two girls start to discover their voices through the programming language of Java. <br><br>Extraordinarily crafted the novel begins to incorporate Java&#146;s syntax and concepts as Emmy and ultimately the reader learns to think in code. By the end Emmy doesn't feel like a wrong note but like a musician in the world's most beautiful symphony.</p>