TL;DR: Buy this book for you children, or someone else's children. They will enjoy it.

Ms. Alston has done a great job with this book. I personally have not read it yet, as the moment it arrived, my 8 year old son disappeared with it. It arrived on a Thursday, and he finished it at school the next day. It didn't look like a super short book, so I took that as evidence that it was very interesting to him, and written at a level that didn't bore him and wasn't too advanced. His only gripe? That it was too short and left him wanting to know more about what happens next! When he finished, he started reading it out loud to his 6 year old brother, and both of them have commented on different occasions about it, and seem to have enjoyed it. I have seen the other reviews here, and while I can't comment specifically on them yet (I plan to update this review after I read it myself), this book was exactly what I was hoping for. For what it's worth, my 2 boys don't fit into the sadly underrepresented demographics in coding, tech, and STEM, but they never felt like the book "wasn't for them."

I bought this book in part to support this young author and her efforts to increase STEM awareness for young women and minorities. I've heard there are more "Sasha Savvy" books in the works, and I'm excited to see them as well. In my opinion, STEM, and in particular coding, are super important for our collective future, and we need to do more to cultivate interest in all of our young ones. It's hard to say if this book made a particular impact on my sons as I have already been working to get them interested in coding.

Sasha Ariel Alston has written a wonderful children's book aimed at encouraging young girls of color to pursue coding as a career. Sasha Savvy Loves to Code is an inspirational story. The book introduces girls at an early age about the opportunities and rewards of coding. This book is destined for every school library and public library. The book belongs in every young girl's personal library. The story is about a 10 year old African American girl who attends a computer camp and experiences the challenges and excitement of coding. Sasha Ariel Alston has delivered.

Farrell J. Chiles, Author and Cultural Historian

I wish that I had owned this book growing up. It might have made my path into software engineering a little easier. However, it is such a joy to share this wonderful book with my daughter who will have the benefit of growing up in a world where she can see computer scientists that look like her. The story itself makes coding accessible to young audiences in a powerful way by explaining problem solving principles that are important for kids to understand. I highly recommend purchasing a few copies and handing out a few young ladies in your life.

The story rocks! I enjoyed the educational parts and the struggles Sasha had. Most of all I enjoyed learning about the stances in coding....As I am a 9 year old who is about to begin my first coding class next week!

I really enjoyed this book. It was well written and a great book for young girls with a great message. I am so proud of this young writer and I hope she continues to write.

This is a great story. Very excited for the young author who thought this up. I bought it to read with our kids, then will be donating it to our school library, because young girls need to be exposed to role models and characters that look like them. I gave it four stars instead of five because of the lack of editing/proofreading, big disappointment on that - lots of typos, punctuation missing/messed up throughout. Hopefully a second edition will come out with corrections. Then I'll buy that one, too! We need more books like this out there!

Both of our daughters, Samara (12 yrs old) & Victoria (8 yrs old), really enjoyed the book! Samara, who loves coding, learned about some languages (html & java) that she hadn't heard of. Victoria learned that girls can do anything they put they're mind to. Great job, Sasha!

I think every 5th grade girl I teach has borrowed this book! Representation matters and I am honored to put this story into the hands of my students. My only complaint is that there isn’t a sequel!

My daughter just loved it

Wasn’t as much about coding as we thought more about the journey and story my kid was not as impressed