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Summary: Still my favorite book
Review: I first read this book at the tender age of 9, and as I recently reread it at the age of 35, I remembered why this book has always held a special place in my heart. It is a heartwarming tale of a boy's love for his dogs and their love for him, but it is so much more than that. It's an uplifting story about overcoming adversity and doing it with your integrity intact through the love of your family. This book is full of overwhelming joy and sadness. I would highly recommend it to children as well as adults.
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Summary: That's what I call friendship!
Review: When I read this book I cried ( me being a girl & all). Nothing is better to express in a book than friendship, love& courage. I could understand Billy when he wanted 2 dogs,cause' I want 2 dogs too, but he didn't beg for them(well,just a little) he went and got them. Old Dan& Little Ann each expressed their love for Billy by sticking by his side nomatterwhat;that is what I call friendship.
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Summary: Where the Red Fern Grows
Review: It's about a boy named Billy who finds a sports magazine at a fishermens camp and sees an add in there that selling hounds for 25 dollars each. He wanted two of them he asked his parents but they didn't have the money so he worked all summer and finally got enough 2 years later and there was still hounds available so he bought them but the owner dropped the price so he got 10 dollars back and then he went to Kentucky where he could locate his pups on the way back he go a little beat up but then somebody helped him and gave him his first can of soda pop. When he got home he trained his dogs after that they were capturing coons like a snap except they kept treeing them instead I recomend this book a lot.
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Summary: The Red Ferns Grow
Review: Augustus Isaiah Bouse "Old Dan," cried Billy. I'm reading Where The Red Fern Grows which it is for people who are animal lovers and that have a lot of emotion like me. It touches places in your heart that books hardly ever touch you in. I think the author really did a good job on this book.
My first reason that I think that this is an exciting book because there is a lot of things that Billy, Little Ann, and Old Dan go on numerous hunts for example, when they went to catch the Ghost Coon and Billy's dogs got in a fight with a Blue Tick and when they had to fight the Mountain Lion on top of the ridge and Old Dan got cut on his stomach.
My second reason is that this book is adventurous because your always on your toes and you never know what's going to happen next and what time your not on your toes your either crying, laughing, or your mind is traveling to how nice and peaceful the scenery is depicted by the author. I think that the Ozark Mountains seems like the best place to be at because of the mountains and the long and narrow fields, the rivers and streams.This book also takes you on journeys by the mountain side, the town, or by the streams and rivers. I think that when they go on the racoon hunts and you never will know when they will get a coon or be fouled.
My next to last reasons is that I think dogs could be and probably are smarter than human beings. If dogs weren't smart why would they save so many humans' lives almost every day. Have you ever noticed when you tell a dog to sit it usually does. "Man!" If I was a dog I don't think that I would learn about 15 tricks. My last reason is that this book is very sad. This books is sad because Old Dan dies and when Old Dan crawls on the porch and dies, Little Ann crawls beside him and starts licking his nose so he would wake up. I almost had to put the book down because I was starting to cry so much because I have been in his situation but not exactly by a mountain lion, but because he was starting to bite people and we had to put him asleep. I was heartbroken when Old Dan died. I felt like just getting up and running in a corner and crying my eyes like a baby.
So that is why I think you should read this book because it's adventurous, exciting, sad, and my highly opnion is that dogs are smarter than humans.
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Summary: VERY GOOD VERY TOUCHIHNG!!
Review: where the red fern grows is a very powerful book!! i had 2 read it in my 5th grade class and i'm glad i had 2. it was provided but i bought it myself just so i could read it over and over.
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Summary: Pick up a better book
Review: I read this book in school i hated it it is soo bad. First of all it is like almost all about hunting,second of all Billy is the biggest wimp he cries over everything. He cried when he got the dogs he cried when he thought he couldn't get the dogs, he cried when he thought he scared his mother he cried when he couldn't cut down that stinkin tree for the coon. I meann i didn't like it at all.I so don't recommend this book!
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Summary: A really good book for ALL ages!
Review: When I read this book, at first it started kind of dull but it got better and better towards the end. By the last page I was crying. I won't tell you why because that the whole object of the book. The book is about this boy who really wants coon hounds. When he finally gets enough money to buy some and he trains them, they turn out to be very good coon hunters. Their names are Little Ann, who's the smart one, and Big Dan, the strong one. Together they hunted down lots of coons. The boy even has a coon hat. If there's a coon out there, you bet Little Ann and Big Dan can catch it. The boy enters a compition and wins! But then it all changes. You'll have to read the book to find out what changed.
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Summary: Incredible read for 4th grade through 40th birthday
Review: First of all, if you think books are for sissies, get this.
Secondly, if you like dogs (hunting or not), get this.
Third, whether you are in 2nd grade, just turned 20, or are nearing 200 speeding tickets, YOU will LOVE this book. I read it as required reading waaay back in 3rd grade or so, and honestly had to finish it to the end. I didn't like reading dumb books for school, but couldn't put it down. I had to know what happened. And I swear, in the end I must have cried my eyes out so much I must have lost weight. (SShh!! I'm a guy. We don't do that.) This is the kind of fiction that I would say "slows you down." It takes you completely away from wherever you are. Perhaps you live in a big city and wouldn't know a raccoon from a RAV-4. Perhaps you own a business and see nothing but red numbers in your accounting software. Care to escape? Slip off your shoes and take a soothing walk through a mountain stream. Become a young boy growing up in the rolling hills far from civilization, and take your very first sip of carbonated soda--a new experience--bought for you by a kindly town sheriff. Learn incredible life lessons of loyalty from a single paperback book that I promise you will never forget all of your days. If anything, read this at least once in your life, and I won't bug you any more. Pass this opportunity up and I won't have to.
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Summary: Heart warming
Review: This book touched me in a way that can't be told. This book to me was very insperational because of the persistance with the dog wanting. It gave me the strength to push on and go on when the going gets rough. This book also told me never to give up when you really want something. I have always given up when I feel like I can't go on any longer but thanks to this book it has told me to keep going even though I don't feel like it. Certain things give you the energy and knowledge to do anything and this book is one of them. I strongly recommend to read this book. It will give you the strength to face something and do almost anything.
4KEL
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Summary: "Where the Red Fern Grows"
Review: This is a good book about a fascinating boy named Billy. Billy was in love with dogs and wants two coonhounds for hunting. He went through a hard time getting those coonhounds, by selling fruit and bait to fishermen, until he had enough money to buy them. His grandfather orders the dogs for him and he leaves his house in the middle of the night one evening, and he sets off on his journey to get his dogs. He goes into town. While he's there, kids laugh at him and make fun. He stands up for himself, and gets help from the sheriff. On the way home, Billy spent the night in a cave and heard a mountain lion. His dogs howled at the growling lion. Right then, Billy knew he had two special dogs. That's when he decided to name them Old Dan and Little Ann.
Like any good owner, he trains his animals to hunt raccoon and many other animals. He gets help setting up traps from his grandfather. His dogs become good hunters, and he hunts with them every night. In fact, they are so good at hunting, that Billy's grandpa enters them into a hunting contest. There are many adult coon hunters in it and they are really nice to Billy. Billy's hounds get to the championship round, when all of the sudden a blizzard begins. They can't find Billy's coonhounds anywhere and Billy doesn't know what to do. He ends up finding the hounds and wins about 300 dollars, which is good since he and his family were really poor. Billy and his dogs develop a bond that is so strong, Billy has to count on them to do him one of the biggest favors he ever needs. This book is definitely recommended and I think everyone who has the chance should read it.
I liked this book because it's the perfect adventure of a young boy and his two coonhounds.
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