How I Hacked the Moon: A Novel

How I Hacked the Moon: A Novel

by R. A. Dines

Released September 5, 2025

At the first coding academy on the moon, constant surveillance doesn't stop the smartest misfits from plotting their escape-even if it costs them their freedom.

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?

Ever since she first laid her hands on a keyboard, R. A. Dines has been fascinated with the intersection of art and technology. After spending two decades in big tech and startups, she is now in the second chapter of her career as an author and creative.These days, you can find her reading, writing, coding, and 3D printing with her family outside Boston.How I Hacked the Moon is her debut middle-grade novel.