My Life in Dog Years Questions and Answers
by Gary Paulsen

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• My Life in Dog Years
  Why was Caesar trouble for Paulsen whenever he played baseball?
  Caesar, the big old slobbery Great Dane, just loves playing softball. Not only does he end up being fed hot dogs by his many admirers, he also gets the chance to participate in the actual game...

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  What are the dogs' names and when did Gary Paulsen own them?
  The stars of My Life in Dog Years are, in order of appearance, Cookie, Snowball, Ike, Dirk, Rex, Caesar, Fred and Pig, Quincy, and Josh. Cookie was his lead dog when he did the Iditorod in Alsaka,...

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  Would "My Life in Dog Years" be considered a biography? My class is about to read biographies for a book report assignment. A student just e-mailed me to get approval for this book, and I was not sure of the genre. Thanks!!
  What a great question! Too bad it has a complicated answer! In the way that the word is defined in English I would have to say "no," My Life in Dog Years is not a biography. Most usages of the...

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  What would you say is the setting overall?
  There isn't just one or two settings in this book. They wander, and to make it even more confusing, the dog stories aren't told in chronological order. You get glimpses of the Philippines and of...

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  what would the story be like if the story occurred in different setting ?
  These stories are a collection of stories from all over the world--the US, the Phillipines, lots of frontier settings--and they're all basically stories about survival. Most of the settings are...

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