Where the Red Fern Grows [Paperback]

Did you ever want a dog one of those adorable puppies you see in the newspaper ads but you just dont have enough money to get it? Share an experience with the main character.
In where the red fern grows you will read about how 2 awesome puppies are bought raised up and buried ina grave together. This book could make you cry about all its emotions and feelings.
This story is great and you might have a great time reading it so I recomend you get this book so you can enjoy all its fun cute and parts. so read it because it will never be put down.

Billy lives on a farm in the Ozarks. He wants two coonhounds very badly; however his papa cannot afford any. Billy works hard and eventually has enough money to buy two coonhounds. Billy trains his dogs to become highly-skilled raccoon hunters. The two dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann, are determined hunters and never let Billy down. Billy's grandfather enters Billy in a coon-hunting contest and they win. One night his dogs tree a mountain lion. Old Dan gets badly wounded and dies the next day. Billy is heartbroken, but Little Ann is so sad that she loses her will to live, and dies a few days later. Billy goes to visit the dogs' graves and finds a giant red fern. According to Indian Legend, only an angel can plant a red fern.
This is an excellent book to use in the classroom. Students of all ages would enjoy this book, because it shows the close bond that people share with their pets. This book teaches students many valuable lessons such as, friendship, love, loyalty, sacrificing, and coping with the hardship of losing loved ones. Where the Red Fern Grows would be interesting to students in 4th grade and above.

The book "Where the Red Fern Grows" is about a 10 year old boy named Billy, who wants two coon hounds to hunt with. When my 7th grade English class started reading the abridged version this year, I thought it was the corniest book, but boy was I wrong. In the book, Billy, wants two coon hounds that together are fifty dollars. This is during the Great Depression, and his family won't buy the dogs for him. He saves every penny he gets by helping fisherman and other people who camp down at a river in the Ozarks. After two long years and a prayer he got his coon hounds. He and his grandfather kept the fact that he had saved all that money, a secret. Because Billy didn't want to wait to have someone that shopped at his grandfather's store take him to Tahlequah, he walked the hundred miles in three days. After 6 days, Billy returned with his dogs and various items for his 3 sisters, his mother and his father (because the price of the dogs had dropped to 30 dollars). Eventually hunting season starts and before it had Billy had named and trained his two dogs Little Ann and Old Dan. He immediatly took them hunting. The first coon they had treed, was in a tree that was so wide, that one couldn't even stretch and arms length and reach the other side of the tree. But Billy had made a promise to his dogs that the first coon they had treed he would kill the coon. Billy, kept his promise. They continued to hunt all throughout the season even in horrible storms. If you read the book, you will understand how aggressive Little Ann and Old Dan are. Then, near the end of the season grandfather sees an ad for a coon hunting champion and immediately enters Little Ann and Old Dan. Two days before the championship begins, Grandfather, Papa, Billy and the dogs, set off for the grounds where the championship will be held. When they get there, they sign in and there is a contest that night. You can enter your dog to try to win the beauty contest. Billy works up Little Ann and enters her, (for she has far less scars than Old Dan). The next night is the beginning of the hunting part of the championship. Billy, along with three other hunters, will hunt on the 4th night. When everyone thinks it's the end, three hunters, including Billy, are tied with the most amount of coons. So they have one more night and there is a blizzard. Little Ann and Old Dan get lost. They almost freeze to death before anyone finds them. But wouldn't leave the coon they treed. Eventually the championship ends and everyone goes home. There is much more to this book but it's the tear-jerker climax part of the story. I recommend this book to everyone because it's one of the most touching books I've ever read.