- Social Issues - Friendship, Juvenile Fiction, Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction, Children: Grades 4-6
Where the Red Fern Grows is a 1961 children's novel by Wilson Rawls about a boy who buys two hunting dogs.
Social Issues - FriendshipJuvenile FictionChildren's Books/Ages 9-12 FictionChildren: Grades 4-6Social Situations - AdolescenceSocial Issues - AdolescenceClassicsJuvenile Fiction / Social Situations / AdolescenceChildren's 9-12 - Literature - Classics / ContemporaryAction & Adventure - GeneralAnimals - DogsFiction
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and resolved.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Wilson Rawls
- First published
- 1961
- Pages
- 249
- Publisher
- Bantam Dell Pub Group, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 57
- Language
- Chinese, French, English
- ISBN
- 9781432850326
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Subjects
- Social Issues - Friendship
- Juvenile Fiction
- Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Fiction
- Children: Grades 4-6
- Social Situations - Adolescence
- Social Issues - Adolescence
- Classics
- Juvenile Fiction / Social Situations / Adolescence
- Children's 9-12 - Literature - Classics / Contemporary
- Action & Adventure - General
- Animals - Dogs
- Fiction
First sentence
“WHEN I LEFT MY OFFICE THAT BEAUTIFUL SPRING DAY, I HAD no idea what was in store for me.”
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