Juvenile Sci-Fi. Island research facility with lots of scientists. Kid can remotely control a realistic robotic bee drone prototype that flies. Deep sea research submarines? Read mid 2000s to 2010.

[Lauren]

I read this book in elementary school so mid 2000s up until 2010 at the latest I think. That may be a clue to it's reading level too. I believe it was a Sy-Fi book.

What I remember:

- There is an island with a research facility and lots of scientists.
- There's a kid that can remote control a newly developed drone that acts and flies like a real bee. This kid is the only one that can fly it without crashing and destroying this million dollar prototype (I think because it's so fast and fragile).
- He's not the only kid on the island.
- They get on a ship/boat near the end of the book and there is a giant squid attack on the boat. I want to say there's some sort of baydoor that opens out of the bottom of the ship where the attack occurs.
- I think there were mini deep sea research submarines.
- They may have been trying to capture the giant squid.

[Kris]

Lauren, is this book for teens and/or kids?

I copied a few book details to the topic header. Feel free to edit it.

[Kris]

The Nebula Secret (book 1) or another book in the Explorer Academy series by Trudi Trueit?

Google Books preview of Book 1:
https://books.google.com/books?id=NUR...

Quote from Book 1:
- The tiny carbon-fiber bee sitting on his shelf flashed its eyes from black to gold. The remote worked! "Mell, come to me," said Cruz. Within seconds the computer honeybee, only slightly larger than a real bee, hovered inches from his ...

Google search of Goodreads:
site:goodreads.com "middle grade" "science fiction" "island" "research" "bee"