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List Price: $6.99
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Manufacturer: Yearling
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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780440412670
ISBN: 0440412676
Label: Yearling
Manufacturer: Yearling
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 1996-09-01
Publisher: Yearling
Reading Level: Young Adult
Release Date: 1996-09-01
Studio: Yearling
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Billy, Old Dan and Little Ann -- a Boy and His Two Dogs...
A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country. Old Dan had the brawn, Little Ann had the brains -- and Billy had the will to train them to be the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadness waited too. And close by was the strange and wonderful power that's only found...
An exciting tale of love and adventure you'll never forget.
From the Paperback edition.
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Summary: still wonderful
Comment: I just finished this book 30 years after reading it for the first time as a young teen. It was wonderful to me then and it was wonderful to me now. I know that kind of Dog Love, and the heartbreak that comes with it. It's just a beautiful story.
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Summary: TOO SAD - A TEAR JERKER
Comment: My son had to read this book for class, and he really didn't like it. He said it was too sad at the end. He mostly liked the book, but the ending ruined the story.
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Summary: Where the Red Fern Grows
Comment: I purchased this for my son. Someone had read it to him years ago and he thought he would like to read it. He finished the book and found it just as enjoyable the second time.
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Summary: Where the Red Fern Grows
Comment: Where the Red Fern grows is an exciting story of a boy named Billy who lives in the Ozark Mountains in Oklahoma with his mom and dad and his younger sisters. Billy has always wanted Dogs so one day he finds an ad where there are pups for sale. Billy really wants some of his own pups but doesn't have much money. The pups are fifty dollars which is a lot of money to come up with. Billy works every day for a long time trying to earn enough money to get the pups. Once Billy earns enough money he gives the money to his grandfather who orders them for him. Billy has to travel all the way to Tahlequah where the pups are to be picked up the pups he has to travel by him self to pick the up. He finally gets the two dogs and decides to name them Old Dan and Little Ann. As the two dogs grow up Billy trains them to be raccoon hunter. The two dogs grow up to be fierce hunters and Billy is able to sell the coonskin for money and gives it to his father. Billy enters his dogs in a Hunting contest and the two dogs show they are good enough to win the contest and the prize is four-hundred dollars. One night when Billy is raccoon hunting the dogs tree a mountain lion. They fight and eventually kill the mountain loin but Dan is very badly injured and he dies. After awhile Ann dies of sadness and Billy is very sad. The dogs have earned enough money for Billy and his family that they are able to move to town. It takes Billy awhile to get over the fact that his dogs are gone until one day he goes to the graves and sees a Red Fern planted by an angel.
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Summary: Redbones Forever!
Comment: We read Where the Red Fern Grows in class when I was in school (7th grade?) and I really loved this book. After reading it again many years later I loved it just as much. I do have a lot of bias involved because my dog is a Redbone Coonhound (possibly the only one in Scandinavia) and before moving over here I spent many a night tracking and treeing Racoons. Besides that I've always been a sucker for a dog story of any kind. The tree hugger in me isn't exactly fond of the part where the kid chops down the biggest tree in the area just to get to a single Racoon but I don't know if any other book that I've read better illustrates the love and deep bond that exists between dogs and humans. I have to warn you if you haven't read it that this book is a real tear jerker but I think dog lovers of all ages would find this a great entertaining read.
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