Written by a real ER doctor
Dr. Anand Gopalsami is an emergency physician in Los Angeles. Nothing in these pages is simplified into something untrue — the anatomy is the anatomy, valves and all.
Book 1 · The Heartbeat Mystery
Micro Missions™ Series
An early-reader series where a practicing ER doctor takes kids inside the human body — one organ, one adventure at a time.
Ages 6–10 · 98 pages, full color · Medically accurate, start to finish.
Launching soon
Why Micro Missions
Kids don’t need the body dumbed down. They need it opened up.
Every child already owns the most astonishing machine they will ever meet. These books hand them the map — with real names, real numbers and a very good story wrapped around it.
Adventure first, facts second
Tyler and Tia are not on a tour. They are on a rescue mission with a deadline, and the science is simply the terrain they have to cross to finish it.
Built for early readers
Short chapters, big color art on nearly every turn, and a glossary that treats a six-year-old as someone perfectly capable of saying “tricuspid.”
Book One
The Heartbeat Mystery
Tyler and Tia are flat on the living room floor when it starts pulling them in, and everything goes dark. They wake in Heartland, where the color red has gone missing because Haley the Heart lost her blanky, Hearty. Finding it means boarding a red blood cell and searching all four rooms of a working heart.
Meet the crew
Two kids, one anxious heart and a lung with excellent sunglasses
Tyler
Eight, second grade, races absolutely everything. First through every door, even the ones he has not thought about yet.
Tia
Six, kindergarten, takes her time and notices things. Asks the question everyone else forgot to ask.
Haley the Heart
The beat that keeps Heartland running. Currently in pieces, because Hearty — her blanky — has gone missing.
Lung Bro
Runs the oxygen stand. Sunglasses, big smile, “duuude.” Also known as Leo the Lung, and the star of Book 2.
The heart of it
A brother, a sister, and a very good reason to be brave
Tyler and Tia are not superheroes. They are a kid who races everything and a kid who stops to look, and the story only works because they are both there. Tyler arrives in Heartland so frightened he hides behind his little sister — and then walks up to a crying heart and hugs her anyway.
“Teamwork makes the blood work!” — Tyler, somewhere near the end
ER doctor · Dad of two
The author
Dr. Anand Gopalsami
An emergency physician in Los Angeles and a dad of two.
He writes the Micro Missions™ Series to give kids a head start: an understanding of their own bodies, years before they ever need a doctor to explain them. His two kids are his first and favorite readers.
The series
One organ. One adventure at a time.
Each book takes one body system and turns it into somewhere you can walk around. Book 1 is finished. Book 2 is in development.
The Heartbeat Mystery
Haley the Heart has lost her blanky. Tyler and Tia have a red blood cell boat each and an entire circulatory system to search. Launching soon.
Lung Bro Goes to School
Lung Bro has never been to school. Never run a mile. Never tasted a peanut butter cookie. That is about to change. In development.
More organs, more missions
The body has a lot of rooms in it. Launch-list members hear which one is next before anyone else does.