It symbolized sacred ground, and their culture believed that only angels could plant it. He even starts doubting God.īilly visits the gravesites of his dogs and notices a red fern sprouting between the graves. Billy does not care about school and misses his dogs. Billie and his siblings could now get some education. Sometime later, Little Ann stops eating and dies too apparently from the loss of Old Dan.īilly’s family had now gathered enough money from the hunts to relocate to town. His dogs protect him and kill it, but Old Dan is injured and dies. One day during hunting, Billy encounters a mountain lion. His grandfather enters him into a hunting competition, and Billy wins it. Billy gets a reputation of owner of the best dogs for hunting.
He did not care about money, and he wanted to hunt. He takes them hunting for most of the book, and he sells some of the spoils such as raccoon skins and then gives the money to his father. The latter is stubborn but brave and Little Ann is quite smart but tiny.īilly becomes inseparable with his dogs. They turn out to be what he expected, and he names them Little Ann and Old Dan. He saves money for two years, and he buys two of them. The novel starts with grown author flashing back to his childhood.
Wilson Rawls is the author of the timeless classic Where the Red Fern Grows and the acclaimed novel Summer of the Monkeys. It is set in Oklahoma where the boy grew up. Praise for Where the Red Fern Grows A Top 100 Children’s Novel, School Library Journals A Fuse 8 ProductionA Must-Read for Kids 9 to 14, NPRWinner of Multiple State AwardsOver 7 million copies in print. “Where the Red Fern Grows” is a story about a young boy who has a quest of having his very own hunting dogs. In the novel, Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls tells a story of a boy and his two dogs and develops a theme showing the importance of such a relationship. This is a novel for children written by the author Wilson Rawls.
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