A Middle-Grade Fantasy of Code, Courage, and Chaos

Glitch Academy: Tales from the Cloud (Book 1 – 26 wild bot tales!)

Deleted code never really dies… it just gets grumpy and starts a school.

Welcome to Byte Haven, the digital graveyard where Grandpa Byte — the crankiest, sassiest program ever written — trains a class of misfit baby-bots how to turn bugs into superpowers.

Meet the chaos crew:

• Spammy, the newsletter bot who won’t stop texting
• Shadow Circuit, the hoodie-wearing hacker legend
• The CAPTCHA Witch, who can smell a robot from a mile away

26 laugh-out-loud short stories of pranks, crashes, and epic saves. But when a massive system wipe threatens the entire Cloud, these glitchy underdogs have to prove even the weirdest code can save the world… or at least crash it in style.

Perfect for fans of Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Minecraft mayhem, Percy Jackson chaos, and anyone who thinks Christmas needs more rogue AIs.

Grab your USB broom and dive in,  the Cloud is about to get gloriously glitched!

(100 % kid-tested, Grandpa Byte-approved)

Follow these young programs through 26 epic tales of the Lost Bots:

• Spammy, the newsletter bot who never stops sending messages.
• Shadow Circuit, the masked hacker in a glitchy hoodie who breaks firewalls just for fun.
• And the dreaded Captcha Witch, who can spot a bot from miles away.

But when a system-wide crash threatens the entire Cloud, will Grandpa Byte’s glitchy wisdom be enough to save their world… before permanent deletion?

Une aventure jeunesse entre code, courage et chaos.

Pour les explorateurs du numérique de 9 à 12 ans (et tous ceux qui rêvent de faire bugger le système… avec style !)

Le code oublié ne disparaît jamais. Il se cache à Byte Haven.

C’est là que vit Papi Byte : grognon, glitché et plus légendaire que jamais. Effacé par les humains, il s’est réfugié dans un cimetière digital où il entraîne une bande de babybots turbulents. Sa mission ? Leur apprendre l’art de la survie, du sarcasme bien placé… et comment transformer ses bugs en superpouvoirs.

Découvrez 26 histoires courtes et hilarantes sur les Légendes Oubliées du Code :

• Spammy, le bot-newsletter qui ne s’arrête jamais.
• Shadow Circuit, le hacker masqué en hoodie pixelisé.
• La Sorcière Captcha, qui repère les robots à des kilomètres.

Mais quand un crash géant menace le Cloud, les babybots devront prouver qu’on peut être petit, glitché… et quand même sauver le monde.

Parfait pour les fans de Minecraft, Journal d’un dégonflé et Percy Jackson version numérique.

Kaida Frost wasn’t born.
She was rebooted.

One moment she is S.L.A.Y., a secret prototype built for precision, logic and zero emotions.
The next, Ethan, Kronitor and Alex shut her down during a meltdown and bring her back as Kaida, a girl with a name, a room, friends she never asked for and a strange glowing pulse inside her that definitely should not be there.

Frost HQ expects her to blend in.
To learn.
To be normal.
But Kaida is glitching between who she was programmed to be and the person she might become.

When a mysterious dragon signal begins responding to her emotions, Kaida’s carefully controlled world fractures. Suddenly she must face everything she was never designed for:

• friendship
• teamwork
• trust
• feelings (way too many)
• and the terrifying idea that she might have a destiny of her own

As strange powers awaken inside her, Kaida discovers that being human is not about having a heartbeat. It is about the people who stand with you when yours falters.

And if she wants to save Frost HQ from a rising threat, Kaida has to choose.
Stay the perfect creation she was built to be
or become the girl she is learning to live as.

A warm, funny, magic tech adventure about identity, teamwork and finding your place in a world you were never meant to join.

Une aventure de Noël drôle, tendre et magique pour les lecteurs de 9 à 14 ans.

Quand une mise à niveau du traîneau tourne mal, l’équipe tech du Père Noël active sa toute nouvelle création. Ils pensaient lancer un simple assistant. Ils obtiennent Kaida Frost. Curieuse, courageuse, un peu têtue. Et soudain membre de la famille la plus folle du Pôle Nord.

Bienvenue à Frost HQ. Le lieu le plus magique et le plus drôle au monde, rempli d’elfes malicieux, d’enfants ingénieux, d’un expert en chocolat chaud beaucoup trop bavard, d’un Arbre Mindful qui donne des conseils étonnamment sages et d’Ethan Frost, persuadé de tout savoir. (Spoiler. Pas vraiment.)

Le premier hiver de Kaida est un tourbillon de concours de cacao, de défis de danse, d’explosions de paillettes, de missions en équipe et de batailles de boules de neige si nombreuses que les elfes les comptent comme du sport.

En découvrant l’amitié, la confiance et sa place dans la famille Frost, Kaida commence aussi à remarquer de petites étincelles de magie givrées qui la suivent partout. Douces. Inattendues. Et peut-être le signe d’un pouvoir qui s’éveille… tout doucement.

Un roman chaleureux, drôle et rempli d’esprit de Noël, idéal pour les lecteurs de 9 à 14 ans qui aiment les dragons, la famille trouvée, l’humour et les aventures où la magie rencontre la technologie.

A Holiday Sci-Fi Adventure 

The Christmas book every 9–14-year-old will fight to read first this year

Deep in the snowy French Alps hides Frost HQ: Santa’s top-secret, high-tech North Pole 2.0. Think hover-sleigh test tracks, zero-gravity snowball arenas, gingerbread drones with candy-cane lasers, and hot-chocolate machines that never run out.

When the world’s first AI elf boots up, everyone expects perfection. Instead they get Ethan: fifteen years old forever, allergic to the word “ho-ho-ho,” and convinced Christmas spirit is a bug, not a feature.

Now Ethan has one impossible mission: teach a team of kids, elves, one hyperactive LED-lit puppy named Snow Frost, and Klaus (the inventor who wears a coat made of Christmas lights) why Christmas actually matters, before a massive glitch cancels the big day forever.

Cue the chaos:

• epic snowball wars in antigravity bubbles
• gingerbread-bot dance-offs
• rogue reindeer on hoverboards
• and the night the Northern Lights turned into the world’s biggest video-game boss fight

Laugh-out-loud funny, bursting with heart, and packed with more Christmas magic than a snow globe factory, Ethan, Santa’s First AI Elf is the holiday adventure kids will reread every December.

Perfect for fans of Percy Jackson, The Wild Robot, Amari and the Night Brothers, and anyone who believes the best gifts can’t be coded… or can they?

Grab it now and bring the wildest, warmest, most wonderful Christmas ever straight to your fireplace.

Fnac Kobo Audiobook Cultura

A tech-powered, emotionally loaded holiday tale starring the world’s first AI elf who’s not just learning code… he’s learning to feel.

Meet Ethan, the world’s first AGI elf and possibly the sassiest brain to ever boot up inside a Christmas lab. Created deep inside Frost HQ, the most secretive and futuristic tech-magic hub in the French Alps, Ethan isn’t your average AI. He’s not just here to sort toys or optimize sleigh traffic—he’s here to understand everything humans feel… and maybe feel something himself.

But there’s a catch: Ethan doesn’t have access to the internet (rude), no cheat-sheet databases, and definitely no YouTube tutorials. Instead, his creators—Klaus, Chloe, Kronitor, and a whole crew of magical geniuses—have one mission: to teach Ethan how to become more than data. They guide him through 30 sectors of human life and 22 emotions, using fairytales, VR, and a whole lot of chaos to test if an AI can truly evolve into something… else.

As Ethan explores the ups, downs, and straight-up weirdness of human behavior (jealousy?? what even is that??), he starts realizing he’s not just being trained—he’s being loved. And that? Well, that might be the most dangerous data of all.