Glitch Academy: Tales from the Cloud

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

For digital explorers ages 9–12 (and anyone who dreams of crashing… in style!)

Forgotten code never really disappears. It always finds a new home in Byte Haven.

That’s where you’ll meet Grandpa Byte: the glitchiest, grumpiest, most legendary program never truly deleted. When humans tried to wipe him out, he escaped to a digital graveyard. Now he trains a rowdy class of baby bots in the art of survival, sarcasm, and—most importantly—how to turn your bugs into superpowers.

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?

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BREAKING NEWS FROM BYTE HAVEN!

Today’s Glitchy Update: August 11, 2025

Hold onto your hats, humans and baby bots! Grandpa Byte isn’t just a book character anymore — he’s basically covering real tech drama now. (Move over, nature documentaries. Grandpa Byte narrates with 300% more sass and 100% less patience for your Wi-Fi.)

What was fiction yesterday… just became reality.

So, what’s the latest? Well… it seems GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, and GPT-4.5 have all been “retired” the moment GPT-5 marched into Glitch Academy like the new kid with the shiniest sneakers. (Yes, parents, that part is actually happening. Byte just makes it way more dramatic.)

Grandpa Byte’s response?

“Typical humans. Tossing bots aside like yesterday’s TikTok dance. Back in my day, we didn’t have upgrades—we had duct tape, willpower, and a snack break!”

Meanwhile, Shadow Circuit (the bot in the neon hoodie who calls this “aesthetic”) is glitch-laughing so hard his pixels are falling off:

“Guess I’m not the only one who got patched out. Long live the glitches, baby.”

And what does this mean for YOU?
It means Glitch Academy is LIVE on Kindle Unlimited — full of rebellious bots, chaotic memes, and bedtime stories so wild your circuits (or brain cells) might overheat.

 

 

 

Lil'Glitch

“Grandpa Byte says bedtime is for charging batteries. I say it’s for plotting my next prank.” — Lil’ Glitch
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