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February Week 1

Teen Reader

Where the Red Ferns Grow

Where the Red Fern Grows (1961)

Where the Red Fern Grows (Text Version)

Where the Red Fern Grow (Audio Version)

Wilson Rawls

 

Wilson Rawls (1913–84). American author Wilson Rawls wrote only two books, but they have become classics in children’s literature. They appealed to young people, especially because of his fully developed animal characters.

Woodrow Wilson Rawls was born on September 24, 1913, in Scraper, Oklahoma. He was raised on a farm in the Ozark Mountains, which would become the setting for his novels. Since there were no schools nearby, Rawls had little formal education. However, his mother read stories to him as a child and taught him how to read. He was especially influenced by Jack London’s Call of the Wild. During the Great Depression, Rawls went to work as a carpenter, finding jobs in Mexico, South America, Alaska, and throughout the United States. He did not begin writing full-time until 1959.

Rawls’s first novel was Where the Red Fern Grows. It was published first in serial form in the Saturday Evening Post and then in book form in 1961. It tells the story of a young boy and his hunting dogs. The book was made into a movie in 1974 and in 2003. Rawls’s second novel, Summer of the Monkeys, was published in 1976. It follows the adventures of a boy who captures and returns a group of monkeys that have escaped from a circus. The book received several awards, including the Sequoyah Children’s Book Award, the Golden Archer Award, and the William Allen White Children’s Book Award. It was made into a movie in 1998.

Rawls spent much of his later life as a motivational speaker, encouraging young people to read and write. He died on December16, 1984, in Marshfield, Wisconsin. (From Britannica.com)

 

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In Spanish

Con Mucho Amor

Con Mucho Amor

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