Brief Summary Of 'Where The Red Fern Grows'

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James #17 Where The Red Fern Grows is a very emotional and exciting tale about a boy who gets two dogs. Billy the main character, trains them to become coon hounds. After he’s trained them he takes them hunting. His grandpa wants him to enter his dog in a tournament and he does. Some hunters joke about how small Billy’s dogs are but he NEVER lets them forget who has the most hides. He has always been listening to the hunters stories but now that he’s got his dogs he jumps in and tells his own. during the tournament Billy’s dogs run into camp chasing a coon and the hunters Whoop for them. Billy saved up $75 to get his dogs and it turns out after 2 years the price dropped. He didn’t order the dogs himself but his grandpa did it for him.