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Book Review of Where the Red Fern Grows

Where the Red Fern Grows
Where the Red Fern Grows
Author: Wilson Rawls
Genre: Children's Books
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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I don't belong to the consensus who loved this book. In fact, I found the book to be corny and hokey. The ending was the first and only time that I felt moved. The protagonist was flat and irreverent. Unlike Marjorie Rawling's "The Yearling" who wrote about hunting animals with extraordinary reverence. As I read it, I kept wondering what was it that readers loved about this book so.