Where the Red Fern Grows with Connections

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Contains: [Where the Red Fern Grows](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL465360W/Where_the_Red_Fern_Grows) Connections: The pine of Akoya (Japanese folk tale) / retold by Rafe Martin -- The Christmas hunt (short story) / by Borden Deal -- Him (novel extract) from Bambi: a life in the woods / by Felix Salten -- Hunting yarns / compiled by Kemp P. Battle -- Mart Moody's bird dog (tall tale) / retold by Robert Bethke -- Davy Crockett meets his match (tall tale) -- Paul Bunyan's cornstalk (tall tale) / retold by Harold Courlander -- Momma's store (autobiography extract) from I know why the caged bird sings / by Maya Angelou -- Princess (short story) / by Nicholasa Mohr -- The saddest day the summer had (short story) / by Dick Perry -- Bloody murder (novel extract) from The original adventures of Hank the cowdog / by John R. Erickson -- Wilson Rawls (biographical sketch).

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,  children's classics,  dogs,  hounds,  mountains,  young adult fiction,  Classic Literature,  Hunting dogs,  Human-animal relationships,  Hunting,  Children's literature,  Fiction in English,  Large type books,  animals,  coming of age,  death & grieving,  4th grade reading books,  5th grade reading books,  award winning childrens books,  Death,  Hounds,  Dogs,  Children's fiction

People: Billy Colman,  Little Ann,  Old Man Pritchard,  Mrs. Pritchard,  Grandpa,  Mama,  Papa,  Rainie,  Old Dan,  Rubin

Places: Ozark Mountains,  Glendale College Library,  United States,  Illinois River,  Tahlequah,  Oklahoma

Times: 20th Century