num_pages: 208
description: 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.
language: English
title: A Dog's Life: Autobiography of a Stray
titlecomplete: A Dog's Life: Autobiography of a Stray
characters: Susan, Squirrel
genres: Dogs, Middle Grade, Young Adult, Childrens, Adventure, Animals, Fiction, Fantasy, Juvenile, Realistic Fiction
ratings_count: 15486
series: A Dog’s Life
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: ASPCA Henry Bergh Children's Book Award
category: Fiction Companion Animals Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Pacific Northwest Library Association Young Reader's Choice Award
category: Junior, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Charlie May Simon Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: New Mexico Land of Enchantment Award
category: Young Adult, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Alabama Library Association Children's Book of the Year
category: 4-6, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: William Allen White Children's Book Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: North Carolina Children's Book Award
publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks