About this title: This classic about a 10-year-old boy growing up in the Ozark mountains with his inseparable pair of coonhounds will warm the hearts of young and old alike. Great Stone Face Award.
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Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Laurel-Leaf Books
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780553274295ISBN:0553274295
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. minor wear to cover. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 256 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780553274295ISBN:0553274295
Description: Good. Laurel Leaf 1997 rubbed creased cover, clean tight pages. Author Wilson Rawls spent his boyhood much like the character of this book, Billy Colman, roaming the Ozarks of northeastern Oklahoma with his bluetick hound. A straightforward, shoot-from-the-hip storyteller with a searingly honest voice, Rawls is well-loved for this powerful 1961 classic and the award-winning novel Summer of the Monkeys. In Where the Red Fern Grows, Billy and his precious coonhound pups romp relentlessly through ... read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Laurel Leaf
Date Published: 1984-08-01
ISBN-13:9780553274295ISBN:0553274295
Description: Good. Toning on page edge due to age. Light rubbing to edges. Otherwise a very readable book. Trust an experienced independent bookseller since 1988. read more
Edition: c.1984
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1997
ISBN-13:9780553274295ISBN:0553274295
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. 249p. Tight binding; some noticeable shelf wear, especially along the outer edges and top and bottom edges of covers; slight soiling, thin lines down spine, lines along spine front cover, rubbing and scuffing of covers, yellowing inside pages and covers, back cover left corner creased at bottom, some noticeable soiling back cover along spine(blue pen marks top of cover and brown showing against white background), some creasing back cover. read more
Edition: Starfire
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York, NY
Date Published: 1974
ISBN-13:9780553274295ISBN:0553274295
Description: Covers shelfworn, back cover creased along edge, spine reader creased, pages yellowing due to age, good reading copy. Mass Market (Rack) PB, glued binding, 249 pages. read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. tear on the front cover, edge wear and creasing. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 256 p. Audience: Children/juvenile. read more
A: The most important things that I don't understand is the age. How can you have a child shooting and hunting against grown men? I understand that it's in the country but also its unfair for Billy a young boy to hunt against old men who probably have been doing it for most of there life. In all the story reveals that Billy and his dogs prevailed against the others until the accident.
C: Billy being young and competing against older people is a challenge that I face everyday. In soccer I play almost 2 age groups over me so everyone is bigger then me and they have the advantage over me most of the time. I just train and in games no one can tell I'm younger because I fix it in my strategy. In the story Billy is probably shorter then the older guys so it would affect his range in aiming in the trees for raccoons. Im shorter then all of my teammates and the people I play against so I could get pushed around easily but I don't because I'm detected jus like Billy.
I: "the ghost coon wasn't there". To people that may mean like the raccoon that had never gotten caught. Even maybe that it was the shadow of a raccoon. But in actuality it means that what they thought they saw wasn't really anything at all. Billy had climbed the tree to try to find what he thought was going to be a raccoon and found out something else. What he thought was a raccoon was actually nothing at all. They used the word ghost because there wasn't anything there. Not that it was the ghost of a raccoon.
E: for many readers this book will be enjoyable. I liked reading this book because of the determination of Billy to his dogs and that worked together as a team. I recommend this book to anyone who likes sad stories or likes country stylebooks because in the end little Ann dies and its based on a farm in the country. Overall I grade this book with a B. the reason why is because the moral of the story was great but I wish it would have given more.
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T: the title of my book is "Where the red fern grows" and the meaning behind the title is that is that when little Ann died she was buried with a red fern on the top of the grave.
T: my story has many tones in different parts it's sometimes funny to hear how they speak. Its sad when little Ann dies. It is also adventurous though. The reason why I say that is because the story shows Billy's odyssey to find his dogs and then another odyssey to become the best raccoon catcher ever. In the end I think that the story is mostly sad because of the great bond that the three had and to watch it go like he said on page 236 "in my heart I knew that there in the grave lay a man's best friend".
T: trying to understand this story was a little bit difficult. There is many different messages throughout the story like if you work hard at something it will pay off for the better. (When Billy working to get his dogs but then found them on the ground.) then there is another message sometimes when your at the top something will always bring you down. This happened when the dog died. I think the most important one is that anything can be done with determination strategy and a little luck.
D: my story it's based in the countryside on a farm and in woods mostly so the most appropriate way to talk would be country slang and that's what they did. The addressed there parents as papa and mama. One of the slang words used in the story is on page 91 "course she wouldn't". Instead of using the word of course he just said course.
I: to me there similes and metaphors were kind of corny, but there in the country so I could understand that. One of them was on page 67 "little Ann would ease herself into the water and swim like a muskrat for the opposite side". An example of personification is on page 95 "Although I cant get the coon, neither can you live, because I have cut off your breath of life". What that mean is even though there was no coon in the tree. He still had to cut it down like killing it.
S: the books changes at he end a lot because Billy and his dogs were at the top of there game catching coons like not other. Until a tragedy happened, little Ann died. From then on out the same wasn't the same any more so they stopped hunting and he kept Old Dan.
S: this story is about a young boy who wants to be the best coon catcher in the world. He competed everywhere and won . but in the end he ended up losing one of his best teammates one of the 2 dogs.
C: I think that my book had two type in it. One being P v. P and then P v. N. I think person vs. person because Billy had to compete against old men to get what he wanted. I think person vs. nature because he had to face the woods and the trees and the waters t get to the coons."
"This is one of those books I liked so much better when I was a kid. Reading it in junior high school it was the story of a little boy who wanted hunting dogs so he can hunt raccoons. He worked hard, saved up money, got his dogs, encountered a wild cat, taught the dogs how to hunt, and you had a poignant tender story of a boy running wild and happy in the Appalachians until tragedy strikes. I liked it when I was a kid.
Reading this book as an adult on the other hand, there were several things that annoyed me. First of all, the fact that the father would have taken the money his kid worked hard for to buy a donkey when he earned the money himself with no help from his father. There's the fact that his sisters aren't named in the book. His cutting down of an old beautiful sycamore tree just to catch a raccoon. But the main thing that bothers me, besides a kid being killed with an ax was the gruesome way the dog's died and the mother's explanation for it. Now, if the dogs had to die so the family could stay together in the city, was there any reason for the dogs to die so horribly? One dog had his guts ripped out, the other dog died of grief. Couldn't they have just gone in their sleep or something? Now before I get a Greek chorus of people talking about what a bleeding heart liberal I am, I still can't understand for the life of me why in so many books a child's beloved pet has to die in order for the child, especially a boy to grow up. I'm still traumatized from losing my rabbit several months ago, and that was a deeply depressing death. If I had a child who had to watch our pets pass away there's no way I'd say "God took them." even if I was religious because you'd just turn a child against God and with good reason. All that ranting aside, as an adult, I really don't like this book as much as I did when I was a kid. It's just too hokey for me. Plus I just hate the idea of killing those raccoons. I just know a bunch of folks will go, you're a tree hugging liberal hippy, America hating, down home country loathing Communist, terrorist supporting swine for not liking this book, but what can I do? I liked it when I was younger."
"I love this book. IT is a heart warming and very touching book about a boys love for his dogs. It made me laugh, it made me cry,it even made me say omg whats going to happen next. It is my all time favorite."
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