Spirit Dogs: Life Between Lives

Winner of the Gold Honoree Award
Mom's Choice Book Awards for Young Adult Fiction

This story continues where Spirit Dogs: Heroes In Heaven left off, with Ivan in Dog Heaven, fraught with despair at being separated from his beloved Sarah-until he is put in charge of five new arrivals and discovers that he can visit Sarah whenever he chooses. Thus begins Ivan's adventure as a leader of a group and a huge sense of self-doubt that causes him to be sent on two dangerous missions to Dog Hell.

The group's purpose, together, is to discover what it means to be a "whole dog," what they learned in their previous lives, and what they still need to learn in order to become "whole." The group consists of Beauregard, an arrogant show Poodle; Murphy, a timid, shivering Spaniel-mix; Jolly, a big, white family pet; Carl, a Lhasa Apso who lived with a pair of psychoanalysts near Central Park; and Stealth, a fighting pit-bull terrier.