The
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In a not-too-distant future, the mysterious Big Smile Corp runs the moon's first coding academy and AI data center. While on their eight-year assignment, students ages 8-16 learn coding, engineering, astronomy, and lunar survival skills. When a group of rebel students expose Big Smile Corp's dangerous secret, everyone's future is at risk.
Join the Moon Hackers for a series about friendship, adventure, and found family against the backdrop of big tech companies willing to sacrifice anything and anyone to achieve their goals. Fans of the Chronicle of the Dark Star series and The Last Cuentista series will love Moon Hackers, a science fiction series for ages nine to adult.
How I Hacked the Moon
The instant Amazon bestseller that launched the series — a thrilling middle-grade sci-fi adventure for ages nine to adult.
Life at the Lunar Coding Complex is boring, not that thirteen-year-old Moon Girl cares. She finds comfort in its predictability—her first real friend and her love of AI coding keep her anxiety in check. When a harmless prank with her charismatic bestie attracts the attention of rebel hackers led by Moon Girl's crush Dovrin, she's thrilled to join their crew.
But as they uncover Big Smile Corp's dangerous secrets, Moon Girl faces impossible choices: her friendship, her crush, or everyone's safety. Even if they crack the system, do they want to escape back to Earth? And if they fail, what will the sinister corporation do to silence them?
With a Robot Army at My Back
The sequel to the bestselling middle-grade sci-fi adventure How I Hacked the Moon.
It's been 47 days since the rebels kicked out Big Smile Corp from the Lunar Coding Complex, and everything is going... not quite to plan. It turns out that running a moon base is a lot of work. The eel tanks need to get cleaned, meals must be cooked, and so many repairs made. For Jo, it's not quite the fun and games that she imagined, even with her best friend in charge.
After a disaster strikes the base, putting everyone in danger, Jo must go on a road trip across the moon in search of supplies from a neighboring base. But driving a rover across the moon for days is no easy task. What will she find at the other base? And can she make it back in time to save her friends?
What Readers Are Saying about Moon Hackers
What Adults Are Saying
"If you like intelligent, fast-paced, and surprisingly layered sci-fi with emotional depth, this book belongs on your shelf."
"10-year-old me would have loved to have been handed R. A. Dines' How I Hacked the Moon by a caring librarian"
What Kids Are Saying
"There were loads of twists and I guessed wrong about who was trustworthy almost every time. The story felt really different from other books I've read because it mixed coding, friendships, crushes and action together. I'd give it 10/10 and would read it again."
What Critics Are Saying
"Dines excels at world-building and delving into the adolescent psyche, applying universal experiences to a childhood that plays out on the moon."
"A thrilling coming-of-age sci-fi adventure about friendship, rebellion and survival... A FINALIST and highly recommended!"
About the Author
R. A. Dines
Author & Technologist
Ever since she first laid her hands on a keyboard, R. A. Dines has been fascinated with the intersection of art and technology. Dines spent the first two decades of her career in big tech and startups and is now in the second chapter of her career as a full-time author and creative. These days, you can find her reading, writing, coding, and 3D printing with her family outside Boston.
The Moon Hackers series began with How I Hacked the Moon, her instant Amazon bestselling debut middle-grade novel, and continues with With a Robot Army at My Back.
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