# A Dog's Life

**Author:** Ann M. Martin
**Grade range:** Grades 4–6
**First published:** 2007
**Page count:** 182
**Genre:** Children's
**ISBN-13:** `9780439717007`
**ISBN-10:** `0439717000`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/a-dogs-life-the-autobiography-of-a-stray
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Squirrel, a stray puppy, tells her life story, from her nurturing mother and brother to making her own way in the world, facing busy highways, changing seasons, and humans both gentle and brutal. Reprint.

## Where this book is assigned

### Young Reader's Choice Award (PNLA)

- **recommended** · 4th grade — [source: Pacific Northwest Library Association — Young Reader's Choice Award winners (1940-2022), via Wikipedia — 2008 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Reader%27s_Choice_Award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade — [source: Pacific Northwest Library Association — Young Reader's Choice Award winners (1940-2022), via Wikipedia — 2008 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Reader%27s_Choice_Award)
- **recommended** · 6th grade — [source: Pacific Northwest Library Association — Young Reader's Choice Award winners (1940-2022), via Wikipedia — 2008 Winner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Reader%27s_Choice_Award)

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