# A Million Ways Home

**Author:** Dianna Dorisi-Winget
**Grade range:** Grades 4–6
**First published:** 2016
**Page count:** 242
**ISBN-13:** `9781484477274`
**ISBN-10:** `1484477278`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/a-million-ways-home
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

When her grandmother and guardian suffers a stroke, twelve-year-old Poppy Parker's life turns upside down--but when she witnesses a murder and has to go into witness protection with Detective Brannigan's mother it becomes hard to believe she will ever find a way home, let alone save Gunner, a beautiful German shepherd with an uncertain future.

## Where this book is assigned

### Mark Twain Readers Award

- **recommended** · 4th grade · Missouri — [source: Mark Twain Readers Award winners (Missouri Association of School Librarians), via Wikipedia — 2017](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain_Award)
- **recommended** · 5th grade · Missouri — [source: Mark Twain Readers Award winners (Missouri Association of School Librarians), via Wikipedia — 2017](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain_Award)
- **recommended** · 6th grade · Missouri — [source: Mark Twain Readers Award winners (Missouri Association of School Librarians), via Wikipedia — 2017](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Twain_Award)

### William Allen White Children's Book Award

- **recommended** · 6th grade · Kansas — [source: William Allen White Children's Book Award winners (Emporia State University), via Wikipedia — 2017](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Allen_White_Children%27s_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 7th grade · Kansas — [source: William Allen White Children's Book Award winners (Emporia State University), via Wikipedia — 2017](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Allen_White_Children%27s_Book_Award)
- **recommended** · 8th grade · Kansas — [source: William Allen White Children's Book Award winners (Emporia State University), via Wikipedia — 2017](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Allen_White_Children%27s_Book_Award)

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