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Where the Red Fern Grows is by [|Wilson Rawl]

It is about a boy named Billy who all his life wanted hound dogs. He would ask his mom and dad for some all the time but the answer was always that they didn't have that type of money. One day Billy decided to buy some dogs himself and he knew that he had to save money. For five years Billy saved up money to buy two hounds. At the end of the five years, he had the sevnty-five dollars he needed to buy his pups. He never told his parents that he was saving up he only told his granddad so, when he gave the money to his granddad he sent it off to the people who had the pups and told Billy that it will take 2 weeks.

When the 2 weeks ended, Billy decided to go into town and get the dogs himself. When he got into the town, he was greeted by a nice sheriff and that was the first time that he saw one. He also met the town boys who he got into a fight with and the sheriff broke it up. When Billy made it to the place to get his dogs, he got them and he was really happy.

He took them home and when he showed his parents they were amazed because they didn't know that he was saving his money up all of that time.

His two sisters loved the dogs. Billy named his two dogs Old Dan and Little Ann. His father told him that he needed to train his dogs to become coon hunters. The very next day Billy started training his dogs. It took him a few years to teach them everything he had to about hunting. On the day they were ready to hunt they found a coon but it took them all day to corner it. They cornererd it by a gigantic tree the coon climbed up the tree. Billy being determined took an ax and started chopping at the tree. It took him days to cut it down and when he did they caught the coon.

They had many other adventures with each other and the biggest is when they fought the lion. When Billy and his hounds were walking in the woods, they heard roaring nosies and suddenly a lion came and jumped on Billy and the second that happened both of his dogs came to his rescue. In the end of the fight, the lion was dead and Billy's now adult hounds had wounds on their bodies. When billy took them home he and his parents doctored them but in the end Old Dan died. Later, because of grief Little Ann died right beside Old Dans burial. Billy learned to accept that they were not coming back. This was a story of friendship, love, and courage.

the thematic staement is that you have courage if you risk your life for someone. I would read another book by this author.

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