Rating: My Bookshelf

Reading Level: Late Elementary, Middle School, High School

What a gorgeous story of imagination & wonder! A space rover is anthropomorphized by Jasmine Warga to help us feel and dream the excitement and questions of space exploration. She weaves in personal battles, hope, and joy.

Considerations:

  • The primary scientist battles cancer, so if that is a sensitive topic in your family, you might pass on this one.
  • There is a struggle: the primary scientist is a mother & battles with work-life balance. The grandma gets angry at times when mom is not there for her granddaughter (soccer games, etc.), and there are several times mom isn’t there to tuck Sophie in at bedtime.  The young girl gets mad, jealous, disappointed, and other times is really proud of her mom. I empathize with this being a working mom myself, but I think the struggle is real, and it is respectfully albeit honestly portrayed here.
  • Just a heads up: the author takes creative liberties (this is fiction!), and I appreciate how at the end the author talks about what is real, and what is not.
  • There is brief mention of the grandmother praying in Arabic, & of how the father is not a praying man.

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