Where The Red Fern Grows Summary

Where the red fern grows is a book about a ten-year-old little boy named Billy who lives with his parents and three sisters in the Ozark Mountains of Oklahoma, all Billy ever wanted was some hounds to go coon hunting with, but his family cannot afford the money for the dogs so Billy spends time of his own doing odd jobs to try and get the money for the dogs. The he tells his grandpa that helps him with a purchase of some dogs. After Billy buys them he runs back home but must spend the night in the woods with the dogs that night they saw a mountain lion but it got scared off by the fire Billy had made. In the morning, he decided to give the dogs names the small female dog Little Ann, and the male dog Old Dan and he says they are inseparable.

After a while Billy’s dog tree’s the coon but didn’t kill it, but Billy said he had won the bet but the Prichard boys didn’t so they got in a big fight and after a while Rubin the oldest brother tried to kill one of Billy’s dogs with an axe but Billy trips him and Rubin dies. After the incident Billy is haunted by it. To cheer Billy up his grandpa enters him into the coon championship hunt. Billy qualifies for the championship after he bags three coons, but s blizzard comes up on them and they lose the dogs for a minute but when thy find the half-frozen dogs they had treed a coon, killed the fourth one to win the championship for $300 dollars. But a few weeks after the championship Billy decides to go hunting and on that day, they run into s Mountain Lion so the dogs try to fight it off but Old Dan dies from a bad wound. Little Ann starts getting depressed and won’t eat or do anything so after a while she runs off to where they buried Old Dan and dies on the grave. With the money they have the family decides to move to the city whenever they are going out Billy decides to go to the dogs graves and in the middle of both of them is a red