Written for middle-school kids, we hope that The Code Witch will be the kind of book kids read just for fun, but that Ada will be the kind of hero who lingers in their imaginations. Kids will see computers and programming used in familiar ways, and in ways they have never imagined.
Suicide is not to be taken lightly—especially in Japan, where it has a long (and bloody) tradition. In Japan, samurai committed seppuku (切腹 or "ritual suicide") if enemies captured them or if they defiled the samurai code.