Where the Red Fern Grows

by Wilson Rawls
Category: "Fiction - Chapter Books"
Pages:282
Year of Publication:1961
Date Added:02/14/2019
Date Read:02/27/2019
Notes:Billy lives with his family in the Ozark hills of Oklahoma. His one desire in life is to own a couple of coon hunting dogs. He saves for two years and finally is able to buy Old Dan and Little Ann. They turn out to be smart and loyal and determined. Billy has several hunting adventures with them, including the time a neighborhood bully was going to kill Old Dan when he tripped and fell on and ax and died. Billy and his grandpa entered the dogs in a contest and they won enough money for Billy's family to move into town. One day, the dogs treed a mountain lion. When the lion attacked Billy, the dogs tackled it. Billy was saved, but Old Dan was killed. Little Ann died soon after of a broken heart. The next spring, a red fern (which only grows where it's planted by angels) grows over the dogs' graves.
My Rating: 6

Reviews for Where the Red Fern Grows

Review - Where the Red Fern Grows

Cute enough story with prayer and God mixed in in traditional ways. For example, the dogs tree a coon in a huge tree. Billy determines to cut the tree down, and when it turns out to be too big for him, he feels like he's let his dogs down. So he prays and God sends a wind that only blows on that tree and knocks it over. Stuff like that. I was supposed to cry at the sad ending, but I didn't find it particularly convincing.
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