This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Free Book Program, which is open to all readers and is completely free. The author will provide you with a free copy of their book in exchange for an honest review. You and the author will discuss what sites you will post your review to and what kind of copy of the book you would like to receive (eBook, PDF, Word, paperback, etc.). To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email.
This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Review Exchange Program, which is open to all authors and is completely free. Simply put, you agree to provide an honest review an author's book in exchange for the author doing the same for you. What sites your reviews are posted on (B&N, Amazon, etc.) and whether you send digital (eBook, PDF, Word, etc.) or hard copies of your books to each other for review is up to you. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email, and be sure to describe your book or include a link to your Readers' Favorite review page or Amazon page.
This author participates in the Readers' Favorite Book Donation Program, which was created to help nonprofit and charitable organizations (schools, libraries, convalescent homes, soldier donation programs, etc.) by providing them with free books and to help authors garner more exposure for their work. This author is willing to donate free copies of their book in exchange for reviews (if circumstances allow) and the knowledge that their book is being read and enjoyed. To begin, click the purple email icon to send this author a private email. Be sure to tell the author who you are, what organization you are with, how many books you need, how they will be used, and the number of reviews, if any, you would be able to provide.
Reviewed by Emily-Jane Hills Orford for Readers' Favorite
Sophie and her friends are interested in the upcoming coding competition to create the best computer app. Sophie’s friends include both girls and boys. When she offers to join the boys' group to enter the competition, the boys turn down her offer. In fact, Nathan gets himself into big trouble when he suggests, first, that computer coding is not as simple as doing cartwheels, which the girls do on the cheerleading squad, and, second, that someone with a disability like Chloe’s dyslexia would be more of a hindrance than a help. That sets the girls in motion and they form their own team. It doesn’t matter that none of them knows much about computers, let alone coding apps. Their goal is to win the competition and the prize money. So much so that they invite the school’s clumsy genius, Rani, to join them. Little do they know that Rani, who runs into everything and everyone at school, has a hidden talent and elegance that not only invigorates the girls' team, but also proves that there are more important things than winning a coding competition.
Tonya Duncan Ellis’s middle grade novel, Sophie Washington: Code One, leads young readers through daily lives possibly not so different than their own, and manages to discreetly teach these young readers some valuable lessons. Winning isn’t everything; not everyone will be a winner. But everyone is a winner in this life just for trying. As the plot develops and a new friendship blossoms amongst the girls' team members with Rani, the girls learn, before even the boys, the importance and the power of a good friendship. The characters are well developed and very typical, likeable kids in the middle grade age group. A simple story with some powerful and very important lessons to learn.
