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The way of dog zana fraillon5/17/2023 ![]() ![]() And one day, he will learn how to be a dog, and how to be loved – in the midst of a dark, and tragic world that doesn’t seem to want him to stick around. They’re inseparable until tragedy strikes, and Scruffity is left alone, searching for food, love, and shelter, and looking for home – but where is home, and who does Scruffity belong to? In a heart-breaking verse novel, told from Scruffity’s perspective, the Way of Dog will come to Scruffity in his darkest moments, when he has lost all hope. One day, he is freed by ManPup, and they run away together. Scruffity is the only pup left in his litter at the puppy farm, and all he wants is a family. How does a dog find his way home when he never had one to begin with? But when tragedy strikes, Scruffity is suddenly all alone. Outside, Scruffity learns all about The Way of Dog – it is to run, to dig, to howl and, biggest of all, to love. Just as his chances of adoption grow dangerously thin, Scruffity is set free by a boy as unwanted and lonely as Taken from his mamma and locked in a concrete cage, what he yearns for most is Family. Scruffity is born into the harsh, grey world of a puppy farm. ![]() Synopsis: A fiercely original verse novel from the ABIA and CBCA award-winning author of The Bone Sparrow.īe strong. ![]() Publisher: University of Queensland Press ![]()
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