Life can be pretty boring on the moon. Even with stewed grubs for lunch, regular spacewalks for low-oxygen drills, and skydiving sims. Not that 13 year old Moon Girl minds – for the first time she has a best friend and challenging coding sets to occupy her anxious mind. Even with 6x less gravity on the moon, the past four years living at the a prestigious Lunar Coding Complex run by the mysterious Big Smile Corp, have been more stable than her life ever was on Earth.

The problem with a charismatic best friend is that she’s a magnet for trouble, like landing Moon Girl in detention when the two attempt (and fail) to hack the school’s core database. The prank catches the attention of a group of rebel coders led by Dovrin, Moon Girl’s long-time crush, who invite her to join their cause. How can she turn down the opportunity to spend more time with Dovrin? More importantly, this is her chance to prove her skills as a hacker. 

Moon Girl agrees to help, but as she gets in deeper with the rebels and closer with Dovrin, she realizes she’s sacrificing the only friendship she ever had. So when she discovers that Big Smile Corp is hiding a dangerous secret that changes everything, she’s not sure where to turn. Even if they accomplish their mission, will they be able to safely return to Earth? And if they fail, what price will Big Smile Corp make them pay?

MOON HACKERS (working title) is a 45k word science fiction upper middle grade novel that I wrote during National November Writers Month in 2021. I am currently seeking representation for this work.