I’m looking for a book I read years ago. It was about a girl who had and shorter leg than the other. She was eating breakfast with her family (cereal) and on the cereal box was an advertisement for a space program. She loves space so she joins and she got accepted. Most of the details are a blur but and and a group of others were the top students from the program and they were taken on a space elevator and shown a box. In the box was something that belonged to a crashed meteor. Every one of the kids had it sucked into their skins and they got powers. Like the main girl got super intelligence. Another girl named Ruth got super strength. I forget what the others got. Oh and one of the top students was a boy that had a sort of romantic relationship with the main girl and he got into the top list because his dad had money and they gave it to the space program.
Lost Classics of Teen Lit: Name That Book! 