Book· 1961· Drama

Where the Red Fern Grows

by Wilson Rawls

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  • Dogs
  • Hunting
  • The Ozarks

A boy in the Ozark Mountains saves for two years to buy a pair of redbone coonhound pups and trains them to hunt raccoons, and the book is about the bond between the boy, the dogs and the hills.

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Where the Red Fern Grows

Where the Red Fern Grows is a 1961 children's novel by Wilson Rawls about a boy who buys and trains two Redbone Coonhounds for hunting. It is a work of autobiographical fiction based on Rawls' childhood in the Ozarks.