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rkiladitis's review against another edition
3.0
Sixth grader Allie Navarro is SO excited about the friendship app she built at CodeGirls summer camp. Click'd collects data about user interests and sends users on a scavenger hunt to find other users with similar interests. It went over big at camp, and now Allie is going to show it to her BFFs at school. She's also presenting her game at the big Games for Good competition, but she's going up against her nemesis: Nathan Frederickson, who wins EVERY science fair and drives her crazy.
The app goes over in a big way, but it's not as great as Allie thought it would be. People are upset about their standings on friendship leaderboards, and a technical glitch ends up embarrassing one of her best friends. Things start spiraling out of Allie's control; even with Nathan's help, she's not sure if she can make things right in time for the competition.
I'm excited about the new coding fiction trend that's emerging in light of Girls Who Code's nonfiction/fiction releases! Click'd is great to hand to readers who may be ready to move on from the Girls Who Code series fiction, or readers who may not be ready for Lauren Myracle's TTYL books just yet. There's friendship drama for sure, as well as positive messages about resilience and friendship. Each chapter contains screenshots of the Click'd app, adding to the fun; readers can watch Allie's user count change, and monitor different leaderboards to better envision how the app works (and maybe get some ideas of their own). Tamara Ireland Stone gives us realistic characters and an interesting storyline and builds an extended universe of CodeGirls - girls who all met through a Girls Who Code-type camp - that will work for future novels.
The app goes over in a big way, but it's not as great as Allie thought it would be. People are upset about their standings on friendship leaderboards, and a technical glitch ends up embarrassing one of her best friends. Things start spiraling out of Allie's control; even with Nathan's help, she's not sure if she can make things right in time for the competition.
I'm excited about the new coding fiction trend that's emerging in light of Girls Who Code's nonfiction/fiction releases! Click'd is great to hand to readers who may be ready to move on from the Girls Who Code series fiction, or readers who may not be ready for Lauren Myracle's TTYL books just yet. There's friendship drama for sure, as well as positive messages about resilience and friendship. Each chapter contains screenshots of the Click'd app, adding to the fun; readers can watch Allie's user count change, and monitor different leaderboards to better envision how the app works (and maybe get some ideas of their own). Tamara Ireland Stone gives us realistic characters and an interesting storyline and builds an extended universe of CodeGirls - girls who all met through a Girls Who Code-type camp - that will work for future novels.
psal707's review against another edition
5.0
Click’d, by Tamara Ireland Stone, is about a girl named Allie, who creates an app called Click’d. Click’d is an app that helps you find who you could be friends with best, according to a multiple choice test you take at the beginning. The app doesn’t immediately tell you who you match up with the most, it waits until you are in a hundred-yard area, and it lets out a “bloop” noise. Your phone screen will change color depending on how close you are to them. When you reach that person, your phone screen will pop up with a picture of them, you will then tap your phones together, and then you are prompted to take a selfie together. Allie created the app at a CodeGirls camp, and she would be presenting it at the Games For Good competition.
The thing that I loved about this book, was that it would be so cool if this app was really a thing! It would make it so much easier for people to find people in a new place where they don’t know anyone, and find out that they would be really great friends with some of them.
The big climax of the story was that her app starts pulling pictures from people’s personal photos, it’s only supposed to pull from Instagram. This starts sharing people’s personal information and creating fights between groups of friends. When this starts happening, she needs to fix it before Saturday, which is when the Games for Good competition is. I expected that the story would end with her fixing her app, presenting it at the competition, and winning the competition. But, the complete opposite happened! She wasn’t able to fix it, and she had to have her name pulled from the competition. I felt that this really showed that it isn’t about winning, she ended up making more of an impact.
I would recommend this book to all of friends, it was such a great book!
The thing that I loved about this book, was that it would be so cool if this app was really a thing! It would make it so much easier for people to find people in a new place where they don’t know anyone, and find out that they would be really great friends with some of them.
The big climax of the story was that her app starts pulling pictures from people’s personal photos, it’s only supposed to pull from Instagram. This starts sharing people’s personal information and creating fights between groups of friends. When this starts happening, she needs to fix it before Saturday, which is when the Games for Good competition is. I expected that the story would end with her fixing her app, presenting it at the competition, and winning the competition. But, the complete opposite happened! She wasn’t able to fix it, and she had to have her name pulled from the competition. I felt that this really showed that it isn’t about winning, she ended up making more of an impact.
I would recommend this book to all of friends, it was such a great book!
abbyreadssometimes's review against another edition
4.0
I liked reading a story about friendship. The author didn't flinch away from friction between friends either. I do think that one of the friendships was kind of 'insta-love' in a way that I didn't totally buy. But I loved to see this cast of characters interacting with each other. It was an addictive read. Loved the app idea. I think it was the part about the book I was most nervous about. Sometimes authors introduce a game or something into a book that I don't believe would actually be enjoyable or go viral. But the way the author described the app, it was totally believable and I liked that she was able to do that.
waterviolite's review against another edition
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
sasha_in_a_box's review against another edition
4.0
There aren't a lot of books like this out there, but they're ever-increasing! Girls who code, yeah!
This is a middle grade novel about a girl who is competing in an app-making competition. Not only does the app have to be well-made, have a nice design, and run smoothly - it also has to accomplish some good in the world. Our protagonist, Allie, has created the perfect app to help people find friends and make new social discoveries. She launches it a week before the competition in her school, but TRAGEDY! A thing is very, very wrong with it! She must untagle the bad thing from her code or suffer the severe consequences. Will she get enough help and solve the issues in time?
It's a kind of cutesy book, but it has super good lessons embedded in it, and avoids a whole lot of typical pitfalls (like people not communicating, evil rivals, unreasonable parents...). It's a wonderful, empowering book for girls who just want to do the kind of work that they are good at and enjoy, and who is tell anyone what they should and shouldn't be good at? Nobody can tell you that you're wrong. YOU DO YOU, GIRL. AND BOY. It's all about how you live your best life :)
This is a middle grade novel about a girl who is competing in an app-making competition. Not only does the app have to be well-made, have a nice design, and run smoothly - it also has to accomplish some good in the world. Our protagonist, Allie, has created the perfect app to help people find friends and make new social discoveries. She launches it a week before the competition in her school, but TRAGEDY! A thing is very, very wrong with it! She must untagle the bad thing from her code or suffer the severe consequences. Will she get enough help and solve the issues in time?
It's a kind of cutesy book, but it has super good lessons embedded in it, and avoids a whole lot of typical pitfalls (like people not communicating, evil rivals, unreasonable parents...). It's a wonderful, empowering book for girls who just want to do the kind of work that they are good at and enjoy, and who is tell anyone what they should and shouldn't be good at? Nobody can tell you that you're wrong. YOU DO YOU, GIRL. AND BOY. It's all about how you live your best life :)
hugbandit7's review against another edition
5.0
I LOVED this book on many levels. I loved that the author is a computer geek and brings that out in her main character, Allie. Allie is only 12 but has already created an app that could take off by leaps and bounds and help those awkward new students at school find friends. Allie has been coding programs for several years by this point and I think that message to all young women out there is a strong one = that math and sciences are just as easy for females to conquer as their male counterparts.
But beyond that message, there is also a message about friendship. That no app can truly decide who your best friends will be or who you will "click" with via this app, but it is a start especially in an unfamiliar situation. It is also about perseverance and working hard to get where you are in life, even at the age of 12.
I would recommend this book to any young woman 10 and up (possibly a bit younger) and even to adults like myself so that we can continue to encourage young women in STEM.
But beyond that message, there is also a message about friendship. That no app can truly decide who your best friends will be or who you will "click" with via this app, but it is a start especially in an unfamiliar situation. It is also about perseverance and working hard to get where you are in life, even at the age of 12.
I would recommend this book to any young woman 10 and up (possibly a bit younger) and even to adults like myself so that we can continue to encourage young women in STEM.
mindfullibrarian's review against another edition
4.0
Fast-paced and timely middle school story with a great technology premise.
Thanks to Disney Hyperion for the advance review copy of this title - all opinions are my own.
CLICK'D tells the story of a middle school coding superstar who develops an app at a summer coding camp and is surprised to have it become a smash hit when she debuts it at her school. Allie is a very relatable middle school character and this is written perfectly for the upper middle school crowd who live with their phones. There are lessons of integrity and friendship included in the story, but are in no way preachy, and the code-speak is appealing for techies but understandable for even only the end-users.
I will definitely be buying this one for my middle school library and can't wait to get it into the hands of my students! If you are looking for a similar book for younger readers, try the GIRLS WHO CODE series, and if you want something for older readers, WHEN DIMPLE MET RISHI is perfect.
Thanks to Disney Hyperion for the advance review copy of this title - all opinions are my own.
CLICK'D tells the story of a middle school coding superstar who develops an app at a summer coding camp and is surprised to have it become a smash hit when she debuts it at her school. Allie is a very relatable middle school character and this is written perfectly for the upper middle school crowd who live with their phones. There are lessons of integrity and friendship included in the story, but are in no way preachy, and the code-speak is appealing for techies but understandable for even only the end-users.
I will definitely be buying this one for my middle school library and can't wait to get it into the hands of my students! If you are looking for a similar book for younger readers, try the GIRLS WHO CODE series, and if you want something for older readers, WHEN DIMPLE MET RISHI is perfect.
kthomas4415's review against another edition
3.0
Cute and quick read. Nice to see that they gave this 12 year old a brain and got into basic coding with the reader. Nothing hard hitting, obviously for being a middle grade, but it was a story that could happen in real life and had a relatable set of characters.
disdoortedcrows's review against another edition
This book was really, really, good, and I highly recommend for anyone interested in coding, as it is very inspirational.
pandacat42's review against another edition
5.0
***I received an ARC from NetGalley for an honest review***
This was a good story about coding and friendship. Highly recommend.
This was a good story about coding and friendship. Highly recommend.