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Did you know that a dog chooses it owner? This book is about a dog who doesn’t know what his purpose in life is. The dog in this book had 4 lives and he finds his purpose in each one and with each person he’s with during those live’s. This dog stays with each person until it’s time to go to a better place. But he knows that he’s found his purpose in life. In this paper I will be writing about questioning and predicting.

While I was reading this book, I had some questions that I thought of. The first question that I had was Why was Todd always so mean to Bailey? Todd probably thought that he could do something mean to Bailey. But Bailey is so amicable and cute, all the kids in the neighborhood love Bailey, “ Mom sometimes unsnapped the leash and let me run with the children a little bit.” Cameron 134. I really think Todd was jealous because he didn’t have a dog.
The second question I had was how did Buddy know that the man sitting
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My first prediction was when will he be a female dog? I predicted this because he came back as a German Shepard puppy named Ellie. Every now and then Ellie would have some nostalgia of being with his boy, Ethan, “ A few weeks later I was in the yard, showing one of my brothers who was boss, when I stopped and squatted and all at once realized I was female!” Cameron 182. My second prediction was Bailey ever going to see Ethan again in the future? I predicted this because when he was a pup again, he recognized a familiar smell from when he was Bailey. “ Jasper’s smell tracked right up to a large white trailer, a pile of grit and hay beneath it.” Cameron 289. When he followed the smell to a place he has been before in a previous life, it was the farm. Low and behold he found Ethan, but he looked different. Ethan adopted Buddy and they lived until sadness struck. Read the book to find out what happened to both of

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