S1 E9: Jasmine Warga and Stretching Your Limits By Setting Limits

 Jasmine Warga, author and winner of countless awards, including a John Newbery Honor, a Walter Honor for Young Readers, and a Charlotte Huck Honor joined to discuss the writing process behind her acclaimed middle grade novel, A Rover’s Story.

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Discussion

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Writing Challenge

Jasmine Warga talks about the limitation of writing a novel with a non-human main character. We challenge our listeners to limit yourself in your writing by choosing a non-human main character. See where your creativity takes you.

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Music credits: Will Saulnier

A Rover’s Story

THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN MEETS THE WILD ROBOT IN THIS UNIQUE AND DEEPLY MOVING MIDDLE-GRADE NOVEL ABOUT THE JOURNEY OF A FICTIONAL MARS ROVER, FROM THE NEWBERY HONOR-WINNING AUTHOR OF OTHER WORDS FOR HOME.

THE TALE OF A SMALL MACHINE WITH A BIG HEART…

Meet Resilience, a Mars rover determined to live up to his name.

Res was built to explore Mars. He was not built to have human emotions. But as he learns new things from the NASA scientists who assemble him, he begins to develop human-like feelings. Maybe there’s a problem with his programming….

Human emotions or not, launch day comes, and Res blasts off to Mars, accompanied by a friendly drone helicopter named Fly. But Res quickly discovers that Mars is a dangerous place filled with dust storms and giant cliffs. As he navigates Mars’s difficult landscape, Res is tested in ways that go beyond space exploration.

As millions of people back on Earth follow his progress, will Res have the determination, courage -- and resilience -- to succeed…and survive?

Looking Ahead

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