As an adult, A Rover‘s Story takes a bit more willing disbelief, but for its middle grade target audience, it‘s an almost perfect novel.
Warga deftly blends fact and fiction, education and entertainment, while finding a way to get our little rover‘s story told.
Bonus points for Warga‘s ability to disregard conventional tropes to make an original story with a lot of heart without pandering or being cloying.