Miss Sophia Sanchez: Intergalactic Starfighter Pilot Extraordinaire is the story of a feisty, impassioned sophomore with big hopes and dreams: Sophia Sanchez wants to fly an Excalibur starfighter as a member of Captain Briggs' famed starfighter squadron, and she wants to do it like . . . yesterday. The only problem is, she has over two years of high school still ahead, and she hasn't even passed her spaceflight exams yet either. What's worse, she can't stay out of trouble, getting suspended from the spaceflight program when she punches her archnemesis Teigen Presley in the face.
Meanwhile, a mysterious starship shows up at Centauri Space Station, the giant, city-like outpost where Sophia and her family live, and she soon becomes mesmerized by one of the ship's crew members: Indeed, Tristan Crawford is a charismatic, swashbuckling boy who both attracts and repulses her. Slowly but surely, as Sophia finds herself falling for Tristan, rumors of an alien invasion begin to ripple throughout the station. And when those rumors turn to reality, Sophia is forced to decide how to save her people from the leezhahi, one of the most ruthless alien species in the galaxy. Does she have what it takes to fly a starfighter-not just a simulated one, but a real starfighter-while a war-mongering race of lizard-like aliens is trying to blast her to smithereens?
No matter what happens next, one thing is certain: Sophia will have to outsmart, outwit, and outmuscle a horde of battle-hardened leezhahi if she wants to save her people from disaster!