Secret Coders Volume Three: Secrets and Sequences by Gene Luen Yang and Mike Holmes
See my reviews of volumes one and two here and here!
After discovering the secret previous school beneath their current school, students Hopper, Eni, and Josh start learning to program robots from the previous school. This plan is going well until the principal uses the school's rugby team to capture them. That's the big cliffhanger that gets resolved here in book three.
The kids get out of a fiendish situation thanks to their coding skills (naturally) only to find out more backstory about the school. Janitor Bee was originally Professor Bee at the previous school. The school closed after a rogue student (Pascal Pasqual) built his own army of robots to take over the world. Bee and his selected team of former students (including Hopper's dad) defeated Pascal. Pascal is back as Doctor One-Zero and seeks the one tool that defeated him the last time--the most powerful turtle robot in the world! He has a new mission--to make humanity happy. He has a pretty bad idea of how to bring that about:
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No details because I don't want to spoil the surprising condition he thinks will make people happy! It is an interesting bit of philosophy thrown into a story focused on writing code.
Recommended.
The books have a web site with activities including learning to code.
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