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Name: A Dog's Life

Full title: A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray
Author: Ann M. Martin
Year: 2005
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Popularity: 2.3
Genres/categories: Award winners, Animals, Fiction, Young adult, Children

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Winner of the Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award in 2008.
Winner of the New Mexico Land of Enchantment Award for Young Adult in 2008.
Winner of the William Allen White Children's Book Award in 2008.
Winner of the North Carolina Children's Book Award in 2007.

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.
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