A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray by Ann Martin

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A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray

by Ann Martin

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i think that this is a good book for readers that like books about dogs and was fun to read because it was a dog telling the story. (

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MrFClass | Nov 13, 2009 |

GOOD

Princess082096 | Feb 18, 2009 |

Unusually

unsentimental dog tale

from stray's point of view.

librarianlk | Oct 27, 2008 |

after a somewhat slow beginning, a lovely story of a dog's adventures in search of a place to belong.

mochap | Jul 6, 2008 |

I think this will be excellent!

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Heart-wrenching as well as heart- warming.

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A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray

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2005

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Squirrel

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William Allen White Children's Book Award (3rd - 5th Grade Winner, 2008)

Book Sense Book of the Year (2006.3 | Children's Literature Honor Book, 2006)

Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice (2008)

TASL Volunteer State Book Children's Choice Award (2008-2009)

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Squirrel and her brother Bone begin their lives in a toolshed behind someone's summer house. Their mother nurtures them and teaches them the many skills they will need to survive as stray dogs. But when their mother is taken from them suddenly and too soon, the puppies are forced to make their own way in the world, facing humans both gentle and brutal, busy highways, other animals, and the changing seasons. When Bone and Squirrel become separated, Squirrel must fend for herself, and in the process makes two friends who in very different ways define her fate.

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