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My friend, Katie, sent me her book report on Ann M. Martin's A Dog's Life. I hope you enjoy it!
The book A Dog’s Life is the story of a stray dog named Squirrel. Her first couple of months are spent in a tool shed with her brother Bone and her mother Stream. (Only known to the pups as Mother) Squirrel is taught to stay away from and out of sight of people at all times. Fortunately for them (and the rest of the animal community) the Merrions don’t come to their house very often, and even then, not for very long. But all that changes when one day they come to stay for the whole summer. Now they have to be even more careful to stay hidden.
As Squirrel gets older, her mother leaves them alone for longer periods of time, but one day she just doesn’t come back. Now, left on their own, the pups try to fend for themselves. It isn’t long before one of the Merrions’ children, Matthias, discovers them. At first they are wary of him and keep their distance, but as time goes by, they begin to befriend him. Squirrel now has a routine of waking up in the morning and getting chicken from Matthias, and a rub under the neck from her cat friend, Yellow Man. Bone on the other hand, gets more and more restless until one night when he decides it is time to leave for good. Bone is her world now that her mother is gone, so Squirrel follows him away from her home and everything she knows.
This book makes me see stray dogs and the way they live in a different way. The author (Ann M. Martin) makes you see the world from a dog’s perspective. I have read this book twice and I have enjoyed it both times.
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