Where the Red Fern Grows
Edition: First Laurel-Leaf edition (152)
Publisher: Laurel Leaf Books
Published: 2001-05
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780553274295
Copyright date: 1989
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; Ozark Mountains
First sentence: WHEN I LEFT MY OFFICE THAT BEAUTIFUL SPRING DAY, I HAD no idea what was in store for me.
Description: Billy has long dreamt of owning not one, but two, dogs. So when he’s finally able to save up enough money for two pups to call his own—Old Dan and Little Ann—he’s ecstatic. It doesn’t matter that times are tough; together they’ll roam the hills of the Ozarks.
   Soon Billy and his hounds become the finest hunting team in the valley. Stories of their great achievements spread throughout the region, and the combination of Old Dan’s brawn, Little Ann’s brains, and Billy’s sheer will seems unbeatable. But tragedy awaits these determined hunters—now friends—and Billy learns that hope can grow out of despair, and that the seeds of the future can come from the scars of the past.

Source: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/139387/where-the-red-fern-grows-by-wilson-rawls/9780553274295Billy, Old Dan, and Little Ann—a boy and his two dogs...

A loving threesome, they ranged the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee County. Old Dan had the brawn, Little Ann had the brains—and Billy had the will to train them to be the finest hunting team in the valley. Glory and victory were coming to them, but sadness waited too and close by was the strange and wonderful power that's only found...

<i>Where the Red Fern Grows</i>—An exciting tale of love and adventure you'll never forget.
--back cover
Notes: US/CAN