When a video game breaks, it gets deleted. Everything inside it. Everyone inside it.
Grown-ups can't go in and fix it. Their brains won't sync. Kids' brains will.
Ada Nwosu is the fastest player in her year, and she has forty hours to save a candy-world called Frosting Falls before it is wiped off the server for good. There is just one problem with the level.
Nothing in it is broken.
The shops have started charging nine thousand coins for a rope. The shopkeepers smile while they do it. And nobody in Frosting Falls will say why.
Ada has three respawns, one squad she didn't ask for, and a teammate who has never played a game in his life.
He's about to ask the one question nobody else thought of.
FOR PARENTS
Ages 8-12. About 29,000 words across 24 short chapters. Written for confident readers and for kids still building stamina.
For the kid who'd rather be on a screen. The chapters are short, the stakes reset fast, and the story moves like a run through a level.
What Ada actually has to do: stop rushing, admit she needs her squad, and work out that the thing everyone calls greed might be something else entirely.
Content: no romance, no graphic violence, no bad language.
Book 1 of the Pixelfall series from Kids Fun Learn Club, the kids' learning channel run by 11-year-old Parikshet and his dad. Books 2 and 3 are out now. Each one is a different broken game. Each one reads on its own.