When I left my office that beautiful spring day, I had no idea what was in store for me.
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Where the Red Fern Grows is a 1961 children's novel by Wilson Rawls about a boy who buys two hunting dogs.
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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, children's classics, dogs, hounds, mountains, young adult fiction, Open Library Staff Picks, Classic Literature, Hunting dogs, Human-animal relationships, Hunting, Children's literature, Fiction in English, animals, coming of age, death & grieving, 4th grade reading books, 5th grade reading books, award winning childrens books, Death, Children's fiction, Dogs, fiction, Boys, fiction, Ozark mountains region, fiction, Large type books, Love, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fictionPeople
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Where the Red Fern Grows
2001-05, Laurel Leaf Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- First Laurel-Leaf edition (152)
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Where the Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy
1998-07, Yearling
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Reprint (1)
044022814X 9780440228141
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Where the Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy
1996-10, Yearling
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- 25th printing
0440412676 9780440412670
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Where the Red Fern Grows: the story of two dogs and a boy
1996-10, Yearling
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Reprint (19)
0440412676 9780440412670
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Where the Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy
1996-07, Delacorte Press
Hardcover
in English
- Delacorte Edition (1)
0385323301 9780385323307
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Where the Red Fern Grows
1989, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Bantam Edition (100)
0553274295 9780553274295
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Where the Red Fern Grows
September 1987, Doubleday Books
Hardcover
in English
0385056192 9780385056199
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Where the Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy
1985 August, Bantam
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Bantam Starfire, 39th printing
0553255851 9780553255850
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Where the Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy
1981-03, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
- Bantam Edition, 21st printing
0553138979 9780553138979
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Where the Red Fern Grows
December 1981, Bantam Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
0553247816 9780553247817
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Where the Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy
1961, Doubleday
Hardcover
in English
0385020597 9780385020596
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"As the story opens, a man sees some dogs fighting in an alley."
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December 3, 2022 | Edited by ImportBot | import existing book |
February 14, 2018 | Edited by Lisa | amazon ID |
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