Full name: A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray

Author: Ann M. Martin Year: 2005 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, Animals, Fiction, Young adult, Children Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780439717007 0439717000

Newbery Honor author Ann Martin's "heartwrenching and heartwarming" (Kirkus) dog story, now in paperback, with After Words bonus material. 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. Similar books: Listen! by Stephanie S. Tolan Finding Danny by Linzi Glass Snow Dog by Jim Kjelgaard Shiloh Season by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor No Dogs Allowed! by Bill Wallace The Good Dog by Avi Stormy by Jim Kjelgaard Pick of the Litter by Bill Wallace Saving Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor A Nose for Trouble by Jim Kjelgaard Desert Dog by Jim Kjelgaard Irish Red by Jim Kjelgaard The Trouble with Tuck by Theodore Taylor A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce Cameron A Dog's Journey by W. Bruce Cameron Black Gold by Marguerite Henry Snot Stew by Bill Wallace Pax by Sara Pennypacker Rascal by Sterling North Gentle Ben by Walt Morey