Glitch Academy: Tales from the Cloud

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?

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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 — 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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