Where the Red Fern Grows

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Summary: The Coolest Book Ever
Review: I read the book Where the Red Fern Grows. I liked this book because I like to read books about animals. It was one of the best books I have ever read. It was touching and made me sad. Other times I was very thrilled. I have read it twice. I have even seen the movie. I hope you like it. If you do enjoy it, you will most likely read it over and over

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Summary: A Great book for someone who loves animals!
Review: Title- Where the Red Fern Grows
Author- Wilson Rawls
Genre- Popular
Where the Red Fern Grows is about a boy named Billy who grows up in the Ozark Mountains during the depression. His family is poor and has little money. Billy wants two good hunting dogs but his family does not have the money to buy any hunting dogs. Billy decides to work and earn the money and buy his own dogs. Billy wants to keep the idea a secret from his parents. He works selling fruit and bait to fisherman. He eventually saves up enough money to buy the dogs. Billy's grandfather helps him order a pair of pups that they find in a magazine ad. Billy buys the pups and names them Old Dan and Little Ann. He works hard to train them to become good coon-hunting dogs. Billy's grandfather enters Billy into a coon-hunting contest which he gets a gold medal after many struggles. Through all of the struggles and adventures that Billy has with Old Dan and Little Ann he learns very important lessons about life.
Billy was motivated by his love for hunting to go work hard to earn the money to buy the coon-hunting dogs. Old Dan and Little Ann motivate Billy to work with the dogs to train them to be great hunting dogs. I would recommend this book to a person who was more into dogs and hunting, although it could be recommended to anyone who was also into adventured.

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Summary: To Read or Not to Read (spoiler)
Review: Where the Red Fern Grows is an excellently written book. I enjoyed the details very much. Some wonderful things happen to Billy, but in the story a boy and Billy's two dogs die. When the dogs die is especially sad. They are in almost the whole story, and you really feel for them. Also, the author describes their deaths a little too well. That may sound crazy, but what I mean is that he describes their deaths so well that it is very sad to read. It is an excellent book, but if you hate death, and love dogs, don't attempt to read it. You will run out of tissues.

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Summary: A book all dog lovers must read
Review: This is one of the very best books I have ever read.I have read it probably 5 0r 6 times.My mother bought me this book when I was younger and I stll read it.Only thing is now,I almost cry when I start reading instead of just crying at the end.When the book ends I feel like a friend has gone.
This is an awesome book.

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Summary: 10 years has passed and I still love it.
Review: I first read this book when I was 9. I loved it then, and I still love it now. It's a touching story of a boy who craves for coon hounds, works endless to get them (you feel so happy you want to cry when he finally gets them), and even wins a hunting competition with them. The end crushes your heart, but the story of the red fern makes the wnole book touching from beginning to end like no other.

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Summary: 13 Year Old Reader
Review: Where the Red Fern Grows, by Woodrow Wilson Rawls is an emotional and adventurous book for all ages. This captivating classic is one that readers will not want to put down. In the beginning of this story Billy, a ten-year old boy of the Ozarks in Oklahoma, has a desire, a desperate need for two redbone coonhounds. He asks Papa, but he tells Billy that they don't have the money to purchase the dogs he wants. He then goes to Mama, but he gets the same answer from her. Billy just about loses hope when he comes across an ad in a sports magazine that reads: "Registered redbone coon hound pup-twenty-five dollars each." He is renewed with hope and decides to save every penny he can earn to get the coon hounds he has always wanted.After two years of saving by doing just about any job he could think of, Billy saves fifty dollars, enough to buy two redbones. He asks his grandpa, who owns a store to order them for him. Billy names the dogs "Little Ann" and "Old Dan." He trains his dogs for coon hunting. When coon-hunting season comes around, his dogs are ready. Billy accumulates a lot of raccoons and receives money for the furs. Billy gave all of the money he got from the furs to Papa. One day, when Billy goes to Grandpa's store, the Pritchard boys are there, Rainie and Ruben, and they bet him that his could not tree a certain coon. When he shows up, his dogs pick up on the scent, but then the coon goes up a tree and seems to disappear. When Billy gives up, he hands over his bet money, and then, just a little later he finds the coon. Rubin refuses to give Billy his money back, so Rubin starts to fight with Billy. What I liked best about this story is that throughout the rest of the story, the relationship between Billy and his dogs is built on love and loyalty to one another.

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Summary: Description Vivid
Review: Every night at sundown, Billy Coleman and his two hounds disappeared into the woods the same way we disappeared into this book. We were sucked into the book by its vivid description and mid-western feel. An example of this beautiful description is, "He was a deeper red in color. His chest was broad and solid. His puppy muscles knotted and rippled under the velvety skin. He was different in everyway." Just like this book is different from every other adventure novel we have ever read, including Old Yeller, which has the exact same story line.

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Summary: Adventure Lovers
Review: Wilson Rawl's brilliant descriptions such as, "White sheets of water, knocked high in the moonlight as his churning feet, gleamed like thousands of tiny white stars," paints a picture in the mind of the reader. You not only see the environment, you feel what Billy, the main character, is feeling. We could feel his pride in his dog, Little Ann, as she won the silver cup for best looking dog. If we could have asked for more, it would have been more information about his three sisters and other characters that weren't so important. The book showed Wilson Rawl's true talent as an author. I would recommend it to any adventure lover.

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Summary: left behind > The kids<
Review: This story takes place in isreal. Judd and nada told samuel the truth about God. Samuels father Mr.Goldberg isnt all that happy about him learning about god. The apocalypse happenig at this time. The main characters of this story are Judd, Mitchell, Nada, samuel, lionell, and Mr.Goldberg. They saved people and told them the truth about God. Mr.Goldberg is always triing to stop them. Also, The police are triing to catch Judd cause they think hes a theif. My favorite character is Judd because he is brave and a leader.
Yes, I liked this book because their is sceince fiction mixed in with action. My favorite part in this book is when Judd and Mr.Goldberg fight to save Samuel. The parts of this book I didnt like were when the book got boring. If I could change the ending I would change it to Judd dieing and needs a special potion to save his life.
Yes I would recomend this book to a person who likes sceince fiction and action,

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Summary: You Reap What You Sow!
Review: When I read this book as a youngster, it left me strangely cold, even though I had wept over the literary demises of countless animals. In re-reading it, I am again left cold by the death of the two dogs, and I know why. The whole of their lives centers on the killing of other living creatures, whether it be raccoons, mountain lions, or another coon hound. I was distressed in youth, as now, by the killing of raccoons that, we are told, cry like babies when cornered, and by the killing of the lion, another one of God's creatures with every right to live out its life on this planet. The death of another boy when he falls on his axe elicits no empathy or sorrow - it's just horrible. So, when the dogs die, it's just another instance of killing. This book is violent, and there is a lack of warmth. Is the Red Fern perhaps a symbol of the bloodshed the two dogs and their young master perpetrated? The last few pages of Old Yeller can precipitate a meltdown in me any day - this book just leaves me horrified by the carnage.