When The Red Fern Grows Book Report

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When The Red Fern Grows is about a boy named billy with his two dogs little ann and old dan. They live in the Ozarks they had great and trouble some adventures together. They faced many problems and they had a great time together as one big happy family. He worked hard to train them to go hunting for raccoons. In the end of all the hard work paid off he entered a competition and he who a gold and silver cup for him and his dogs and his family.
In the book it has a lot more than the movie it has great detail and emotions. But the way this all started he worked hard for money to send to his grandpa. He spent many hours dreaming of the dogs hunting and killing the raccoons and treeing them and skinning the fur off their first catch. And one day

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