<Tr> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Td> 0 - 440 - 22814 - X </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> OCLC </Th> <Td> 39850615 </Td> </Tr> <P> Where the Red Fern Grows is a 1961 children's novel by Wilson Rawls about a boy who buys and trains two Redbone Coonhound hunting dogs . </P> <P> When leaving work in Idaho's Snake River Valley, Billy Colman sees a pack of dogs attacking a stray coonhound . He chases the pack away and takes the stray home to feed it . Once it has rested, Billy sets it free, knowing that it will return home . </P>

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