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Talia's Codebook for Middle School

by Marissa Moss Publisher: WALKER BOOKS US

Codes, competition, and middle school

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AlbakiReads Editorial

Codes, competition, and middle school

Talia’s notebook is both a record of middle-school observations and a way into the puzzles she enjoys. As her math team merges with a coed team, she faces competition, questions of leadership, stage fright, and changing relationships with teammates—including jealousy of a new captain. Doodles, graphs, and puzzles shape the diary-style presentation, linking mathematical codes with the social rules Talia is trying to understand. The book’s central tension is that recognizing a pattern does not necessarily make it easy to navigate, whether the challenge is a math problem or a friendship.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Middle-grade readers interested in math, codes, puzzles, and doodle-filled diary formats
  • Children navigating team competition, leadership, or changing friendships
  • Readers who enjoy stories about middle-school social dynamics

Themes

Math and codebreakingCompetition and leadershipFriendship and jealousyMiddle-school social dynamics

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Book overview

From the creator of Amelia's Notebook--the series that launched the hybrid diary format--book two in this series filled with doodles, graphs, and puzzles draws mathletes and code breakers deeper into the wilds of middle school.

With help from her trusty notebook, Talia thinks she has cracked the codes of middle school--what to wear, what to say, what not to say. But knowledge and mastery don't always equate, and codes are like homework: just when you think you're caught up, a new batch arrives. Luckily math brims with codes, and Talia, with her knack for observations and deductions, understands math. As part of a newly merged coed math team, Talia must navigate not only her own struggles with competition, leadership, and stage fright, but also the girl-boy codes and her jealousy of the team's "perfect" new captain. Being on the same team, it turns out, doesn't always mean you're friends, but it does give you the space to try. Second in a charming spin-off series from the creator of the phenomenally popular Amelia books, this doodle-dense, STEM-centric diary will delight and engross readers navigating unfamiliar social terrain.
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