SOLVED. YA Realistic (?) Fiction about this group of teens who participate in this NASA/ space camp that’s really competitive. Read around 2019-2020. [s]

[wavess_]

I remember the cover is a cartoonish drawing of an astronaut standing upside down on the Earth. I read this around late 2019 to early 2020 when I was in middle school. and it was probably published anywhere from 2015-2018. I think the protagonist was a girl named Rosa. All of the characters were around 17-19 years old. The camp is very competitive and only around 5 kids were chosen out of the hundred or so that participated. There was a paper test they had to take at the very beginning. I remember one of the tests they had to do was fly a drone and try to put a block in a box. I also remember one scene where they snuck out of the camp to get stuff from a convenience store, and another where some of the boys got into a fight and pulled the fire alarm. Oh and once the selected were accepted into the program, they had to learn how to fly rockets through simulation. The story is set in the United States.

[wavess_]

Nope and nope. I believe the title was something like “Upside Down” or “Flipped,” something along those lines… probably not those exactly but something to do with being upside down lol.

[SBC]

You're so close with the title! I think it's What Goes Up?

[wavess_]

YES THAT’S IT THANK YOU!!!!

[SBC]

Great, I'm glad I could help :)