I'm trying to remember a sci-fi novel, probably from the 80's or 90's, I read the first few chapters of in 5th grade. In it two kids, a girl and a boy, steal a spaceship from their school. They go into space and get held-up and captured by some aliens with freeze rays, this was as far as I got in the book. The book was written in first person from the perspective of the girl, and it had a comedic tone. The two kids had a crush on each other.
Some other things I remember:
- The parents of the girl were either astronauts of some other kind of scientists
- The parents worked for some organization that's name was NASA but with one or two extra letters, like CNASA or something
- Ganymede had been turned into a retirement community
- I think the school was in Mexico, but I might be conflating this with some other book
- The kids took the spaceship on the last day of school before vacation
- Earth had established diplomatic relations with alien life forms
- Shortly after being captured, the girl tries using an alien toilet but is confused how it works