36 pages 1 hour read

Gene Luen Yang

Secret Coders

Fiction | Graphic Novel/Book | Middle Grade | Published in 2015

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Chapter 3

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To get back at him, Hopper commands the turtle to walk over to Josh and turn on his leaf blower. This causes his sandwich to blow into the face of the teacher on lunch duty, Ms. Hu. Ms. Hu is angry and brings Hopper to the principal’s office. Principal Dean is in a meeting, so Ms. Hu and Hopper wait in the lobby. Ms. Hu is angry about Hopper’s behavior and attitude, and Hopper reminds her that she never wanted to come to this school in the first place. At this point, Hopper calls Ms. Hu “Mom,” making it clear that Hopper’s Mandarin teacher, Ms. Hu, is also her mother. Hopper accuses her mother of having her own reasons for moving and blames her for her father leaving. Ms. Hu leaves Hopper to wait for the principal by herself.

Eni enters the office to lend moral support to Hopper. He shows her another program he found in the janitor’s shed, called “OpenSesame.” Hopper closes her eyes and visualizes what the path would look like if Little Guy walked out each command. She realizes that it makes the shape of a hexagon.