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- Wilford Brimley. Grandpa Will.
- Doug McKeon. Billy Coleman.
- Chad McQueen. Rainie Pritchard.
- Adam Faraizl. Wilson.
- Karen Carlson. Actor.
Billy Colman. The protagonist of Where the Red Fern Grows. At the start of the novel he is ten years old. He has three younger sisters.
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Where the Red Fern Grows is a perfect example of autobiographical fiction. Its author, Wilson Rawls, used events from his personal life as the foundation for the book. He bases the main character, Billy, on himself as a young boy. Like Billy, Rawls grew up poor in the Ozark Mountains of Oklahoma on a farm.
twelve-year-old. Where the Red Fern Grows is a children's novel by Wilson Rawls which tells the story of Billy Coleman and his redbone coonhounds. Growing up in the 1930s, Billy is a twelve-year-old mountain boy from a low-income family who lives off the land.