Lunar Camp (exerpt)

Having to spend her summer break at camp on the Moon is more (and in some ways less) than thirteen-year-old, botany-loving Bee bargained for.

"Lunar Camp" can be found in full in the Athena's Daughters anthology as well as the Young Explorer's Guide to Adventure 2016.
http://www.silenceinthelibrarypublishing.com/product/athenas-daughters-vol-1/
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B018RSIKXK/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1

The story "cover" art is by Autumn Frederickson and is from Athena's Daughters.

I have another story written in this world available here: https://www.wattpad.com/myworks/70380127-land-of-the-lost Bee makes an appearance!

One of my kind beta-readers, Aaron, said that this story strongly reminded him of the Heinlein juveniles from the 1950s and 60s. This story wasn't intentionally written in that style, but since I read and reread the Heinlein juveniles as a teenager, they are very much ingrained in me. My particular favorite was "Space Cadet," though I always mentally turned the main character into a girl (and dialed back some of the more sexist dialogue in the book) because I thought girls should be allowed to have space adventures too. I loved being able to write my own. Aaron will never know how grateful I have been for his feedback. I truly think it has made me a better writer. This one is for him. In this story I've also included a few small homages to other science fiction writers/stories that inspired me. Butter pies are the invention of the incomparable Diana Wynne Jones (in "A Tale of Time City"), whose work I adore. The Eagles and Eaglets group names were from another favorite from my teen years, Paula Danziger's amazing coming-of-age book set on the Moon, called "The Moon Has No Atmosphere." (I also borrowed the title for a line of dialogue.) Oh, and we really did have refried bean pizza boats for a meal once when I was at Space Camp. I figured bad cafeteria food at camp must be ubiquitous. Even when that camp is on the Moon.