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    Wilson Rawls

    Wilson Rawls grew up on a small farm in the Ozark Mountains of Oklahoma. There were no schools where he lived so his mother taught Rawls and his sisters how to read and write. He says that reading the book The Call of the Wild changed his life and gave him the notion that he would like to grow up to write a book like it. He shared his dream with his father, and his father gave him the encouraging advice, "Son, a man can do anything he sets out to do, if he doesn't give up." Rawls never forgot his father's words, and went on to create two novels about his boyhood that have become modern classics.
    Summer Reading Classics Three-Book Collection
    Summer Reading Classics Three-Book Collection
    Harriet the Spy; The Phantom Tollbooth; Where the Red Fern Grows
    Louise Fitzhugh , Norton Juster , Wilson Rawls
    9780593375259
    Ebook
    Jun 30, 2020
    Yearling
    Where the Red Fern Grows
    Where the Red Fern Grows
    Wilson Rawls
    9780399551239
    $17.99 US
    Hardcover
    May 03, 2016
    Delacorte Press
    5-1/2 x 8-1/4
    Summer of the Monkeys
    Summer of the Monkeys
    Wilson Rawls
    9780440415800
    $8.99 US
    Paperback
    Dec 29, 1998
    Yearling
    5-3/16 x 7-5/8

    Books

    Summer Reading Classics Three-Book Collection
    Summer Reading Classics Three-Book Collection
    Harriet the Spy; The Phantom Tollbooth; Where the Red Fern Grows
    Louise Fitzhugh, Norton Juster, Wilson Rawls
    9780593375259
    $18.99 US
    Ebook
    Jun 30, 2020
    Yearling
    Where the Red Fern Grows
    Where the Red Fern Grows
    Wilson Rawls
    9780399551239
    $17.99 US
    Hardcover
    May 03, 2016
    Delacorte Press
    5-1/2 x 8-1/4
    Summer of the Monkeys
    Summer of the Monkeys
    Wilson Rawls
    9780440415800
    $8.99 US
    Paperback
    Dec 29, 1998
    Yearling
    5-3/16 x 7-5/8

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