The Way of Dog

 By: Zana Fraillon

Location: FIC FRE

Genre: Verse Novel and Dogs and disability

“Be strong. Be fierce. Life is more than a concrete floor."

A fiercely original verse novel from the ABIA and CBCA award-winning author of The Bone Sparrow.

Scruffity is born into the harsh, grey world of a puppy farm. Taken from his mamma and locked in a concrete cage, what he yearns for most is Family. To belong is The Way of Dog. But no one wants him.

Just as his chances of adoption grow dangerously thin, Scruffity is set free by a boy as unwanted and lonely as
he is.

Outside, Scruffity learns all about The Way of Dog – it is to run, to dig, to howl and, biggest of all, to love. But when tragedy strikes, Scruffity is suddenly all alone.

How does a dog find his way home when he never had one to begin with? 

"Just as desperate to escape as Scruffity, a young boy decides that he and Scruffity need to escape and so Scruffity finally gets to experience the wider world and learn the Way of Dog - just like his mother told him.

But the outside world can be harsh and dangerous and when the boy Is struck down in an accident, Scruffity must make his own way and try to survive.

This book is beautiful, heartbreaking, hopeful and basically amazing."