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    <body><![CDATA[I loved chatting over email with <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amyschimler.com/">Amy Schimler</a> about her dog Beans (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.pleasecomeflying.com/2007/11/roberts-snow-amy-schimler-interview.html">see yesterday's interview</a>), and it got me thinking about my favorite dog book of all time. We had to read <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0440412676?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=josephinecame-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0440412676">Where the Red Fern Grows</a>  in 5th grade, and I have to admit I was completely dismayed that we had to read a &quot;boy book.&quot;...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9649603">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this in fourth grade because I was one of those try-hard little girls that wanted to act grown up by reading grown up books. I still do that. But yeah, I reread it in seventh grade, and I was a little bit bored, since I knew everything that was going to happen. Plus, the teacher made everyone...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36208981">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[There are a handful of books we read as children that so completely capture our hearts we cannot and would not ever forget them. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10365.Where_the_Red_Fern_Grows" title="Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls">Where the Red Fern Grows</a> is such a book. An elementary teacher read this book to my class when I was in about third grade, beginning for me a love that has seen me through...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/26222015">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Where the Red Fern Grows was my favorite book growing up as a kid.  It's a classic story, a young boy saves up a substantial sum of money and buys two coon hunting dogs, Little Ann and Old Dan, and trains them to be the best damn coon hunting dogs in the Ozarks.  He trains them thoroughly and ends u...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/24259151">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book belongs on that special list of YA books that stay with you for the rest of your life. You remember them, remember how they changed your perspective, how they made you feel, and how they helped you grow up. This book in particular belongs at the top of that list for me, right alongside Bri...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5297669">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Loved the story when i read it, made me cry, very hart-warming story about this country kid who saves up to buy puppies, and then spends time with them teaching them how to hunt &quot;coons&quot; and the dogs and him relationship grows throught their adventures together untill when a mount lion unex...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37902771">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[SPOILER ALERT!<br/>.............................................................................................................<br/>The dogs die.  <strong>WHY</strong> do they <em>always</em> do this to dogs in children's books?  to quote Gordon Korman's delicious farce, <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/160698.No_More_Dead_Dogs" title="No More Dead Dogs by Gordon Korman">No More Dead Dogs</a> &quot;the dog always dies. Go to ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2063080">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Let me say first that some love this book and to be fair I never read it except to get an idea of the story. You will find in my books low ratings for Black Beauty, The Yearling, Old Yeller and any books that have the &quot;pain of life motif&quot; in common. By the way this includes Cold Mountain. ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/82505398">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ahhh, Where the Red Fern Grows. I give credit where credit is due and this little book (not so little to my 8 year old self) singlehandedly catalyzed my voracious appetite for books. And not just books, good books. Well written books by authors whose messages and themes are so well wrapped in honest...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80007159">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[ACIE<br/><br/>A:  The most important things that I don’t understand is the age. How can you have a child shooting and hunting against grown men? I understand that it’s in the country but also its unfair for Billy a young boy to hunt against old men who probably have been doing it for most of t...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/76691775">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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