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Volume 2 of Gene Luen Yang’s Paths & Portals follows Hopper, Eni, and Josh as they discover a secret underground classroom beneath Stately Academy. The space hints that the campus once housed the Bee School, an institute where teachers, students, and robots collaborated to untangle coding puzzles. The trio is eager to continue the Bee School’s legacy and become top‑rate coders, while the mysterious interest of PrincipalDean and the rugby team in their extracurricular pursuits raises new questions.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels/Graphic Fiction
Authors: Gene Luen Yang
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