The Message Protectors : Bitsy's Race Across the Circuit Board
Overview
The Nova is supposed to be the fastest game console ever made. Instead, it keeps freezing on a purple screen, and it launches in ten days.
When eleven-year-old Maya visits engineer Timmy's lab for a science fair interview, he hands her a pair of SimScope goggles. Suddenly she's standing inside the circuit board itself: a glowing city of chips, where messages race along golden copper roads.
There she meets Bitsy, a speedy and slightly smug bit of data with a very important delivery to make. Together they face echoes bouncing out of dead ends, a noisy neighbor named Clatter, a long road that wears Bitsy out, a strict timekeeper named Strobe, and a city that shakes whenever the power dips. With her trusty clue notebook, Maya tests ideas, follows the evidence, and refuses to ignore the weird stuff, until she and Timmy find every problem before launch day.
The Message Protectors: Bitsy's Race Across the Circuit Board is an illustrated chapter book that makes the invisible engineering inside every phone, computer, and game console visible, playful, and real. Written by a signal integrity engineer, it shows that engineering is curiosity, teamwork, and never giving up on a good question.
Inside you'll find:
- Full-color illustrations and easy-to-follow diagrams
- An Engineer's Notebook in every chapter
- A glossary of real engineering terms
- Hands-on experiments you can try at home or in class
- Discussion questions, puzzles, and a career page
- A note for parents and teachers
- A sneak peek at Book 2, Pip and the Power Surge
Perfect for curious readers ages 9-12, STEM classrooms, and anyone who has ever wondered what happens inside their devices.
This item is Non-Returnable
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9798998395208
- ISBN-10: 9798998395208
- Publisher: Wildbrook Company
- Publish Date: November 2026
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.26 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.43 pounds
- Page Count: 100
- Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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