Allie Navarro can’t wait to show her best friends the app she built at CodeGirls summer camp. Click’d pairs users based on common interests and sends them on a fun (and occasionally rule-breaking) scavenger hunt to find each other. And it’s a hit. By the second day of school, everyone is talking about Click’d. Watching her app go viral is amazing. Leaderboards are filling up! Everyone’s making … Everyone’s making new friends. And with all the data Allie is collecting, she has an even better shot at beating her archenemy, Nathan, at the upcoming youth coding competition. But when Allie discovers a glitch that threatens to expose everyone’s secrets, she has to figure out how to make things right, even if that means sharing the computer lab with Nathan. Can Allie fix her app, stop it from doing any more damage, and win back the friends it hurt-all before she steps on stage to present Click’d to the judges?
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I LOVE this book! I got it about two years ago and I have probably read it 10 times! I would really recommend to people who love reading about tech but also some drama.
Allie spent the summer at a STEM camp and created an app that pairs users together by interests. While trying it out on her classmates she learns of a few glitches that create unkindness among the users. Can Allie fix it in time?
This was an enjoyable middle-grade book. Allie’s character was not always likable in that she could be a tad selfish but what middle schooler is not selfish at times?
Click’d is a good book to teach about the importance of being kind to one another especially on social media.
This book was entertaining to me and I don’t even CARE about phone apps or games at ALL and it was still fun to read. It WOULD be a big deal, huge, to create them when you’re only in the seventh grade, and wow, the perks of everyone knowing who you are, and also the downfalls. That’s a lot of pressure on the main character, but she is pretty amazing. I liked the little lessons about perseverance and it was fun to read the little text bubbles and troubles and friendship drama, and … I’m so glad I’m not in school and don’t have to code anything or compete like that, but it makes me, as a grownup, totally root for the kiddos who are, and how cool to make some that actually matter, even while people are, as it feels in my brain, “wasting time on their phones;-)” Maybe I’m old. ha! This was one of the books in the challenge for the Truman nominees, and it was one to the better ones so far. I’ll check out some of her other books now and see if I’m interested. I loved reading the acknowledgements as well. I mean, when I read a book, I read the WHOLE book. Thanks, Tamara. Good job! My daughter will enjoy this one (even if she doesn’t have her own phone…yet). She does see, and feel at times, the drama that just happens, even if you’re being a good kid, just because friendships aren’t easy, and either is life, or school.
I recently included Click’d in my post of upcoming Children’s and Middle Grade Reads for Fall. Click’d has been on my radar for a couple of months, and I was thrilled when Disney Book Group sent me an advance reader copy through NetGalley.
First, let me say that I loved that the protagonist is a female character who is into coding. I would like to see more female characters written this way, with intelligence and a desire to learn and explore and invent things. Allie was a great character and one I think girls could look up to. She was not only smart, but she was kind and, in the grand tradition of Disney stories, she learns a lesson or two about the importance of friendship and doing the right thing.
That’s not to say that this book was cheesy. It wasn’t. Yes, it’s a Disney book but it was very real for middle grade fiction. This book tackles friendships and how they may be strained by a summer long absence as well as the importance of trust between friends.
Was it predictable? Sure. But that doesn’t mean it wasn’t good. If you are looking for a new read for your middle schooler or if you have a kiddo in your life who is interested in science, computers, and coding, then pick up Click’d. It’s a good story with a good lesson!
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