Where the Red Fern Grows
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All Characters Billy Colman Billy’s Father / Papa Billy’s Grandfather / Grandpa Old Dan Little Ann Billy’s Mother / Mama Rubin Pritchard Rainie Pritchard
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Where the Red Fern Grows

by

Wilson Rawls
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At the end of the novel, several months after the deaths of Old Dan and Little Ann, Billy Colman and his family prepare to move out of their Ozark mountain home and pursue a…

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