Girl of the Year 2018 Novel 1 (American Girl: Girl of the Year 2018, Book 1)

Meet Luciana Vega, American Girl's 2018 Girl of the Year! She's an aspiring astronaut ready to take the next giant leap to Mars.

Get to know American Girl's 2018 Girl of the year, Luciana, in this first book in her series! Luciana is over the moon--she's going to Space Camp! But when she's picked to lead her team in a robot challenge, instead of rocketing her crew to success she steers them straight into trouble. After that, her teammates don't trust her. In fact, Luci's pretty sure they don't even like her. It's great to be good at science-but Luci learns that it's not enough. If she's ever going to make it to Mars, she's got to be someone her crew can depend on, no matter what.

Erin Teagan worked in biochemistry labs for ten years. She knew that in science, especially working on research drugs, bringing your work home could actually be punishable by law. This left lots of time to work on her writing after work. Erin’s debut middle grade novel, The Friendship Experiment, was published by Houghton Mifflin in fall 2016. Erin lives in Virginia with her family.