Where the Red Fern Grows is about a kid named Billy Coleman, who lives on a farm in the Ozark Mountains. Billy really wants to get him a pair of coonhounds so he can run coons. He saves money for about two years before he got the money he needed. He went to his grandpa and he placed the order to get the pups. When they came in the were in another town about ten miles away. So he left a night not telling his parents that he was leaving. When he got the pups home he started working with them right away. Later that fall him and his dogs went coon hunting.
