Category: fiction

Emmy in the Key of Code
by Aimee Lucido (Author)

Booktalk: In a new city, at a new school, twelve-year-old Emmy has never felt more out of tune. Things start to look up when she takes her first coding class, unexpectedly connecting with the material–and Abigail, a new friend–through a shared language: music. But when Emmy gets bad news about their computer teacher, and finds out Abigail isn’t being entirely honest about their friendship, she feels like her new life is screeching to a halt. Despite these obstacles, Emmy is determined to prove one thing: that, for the first time ever, she isn’t a wrong note, but a musician in the world’s most beautiful symphony.

Snippet:
Blending In

Instead of staring
the girl in braids
wears a smile so sure
that I know
she doesn’t think I stand out
like an ugly yellow piano
at all.

In fact
it seems that
the only thing she thinks I look like
is myself.

A 2019 Cybils Poetry nominee

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