An edition of Sounder (1969)

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Cover of: Sounder by William H. Armstrong, William H Armstrong, James Barkley
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An edition of Sounder (1969)

Sounder

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  • ★★★ 3.3 (9 ratings) ·
  • 56 Want to read
  • 3 Currently reading
  • 20 Have read

A young Negro boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. Learning to read and to discover that things do not die but become part of other things brings the youngster new hope.

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HarperCollins
Language
English
Pages
128

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Subjects

Children: Grades 4-6, Dogs, Poverty, Juvenile fiction, African Americans, Family life, Fiction, Dogs in fiction, Family life in fiction, African Americans in fiction, Poverty in fiction, Newbery Medal, Family, Noirs américains, Families, Pauvreté, Romans, nouvelles, Afro-Americans, Children's stories, Children's fiction, Dogs, fiction, Poverty, fiction, African americans, fiction, Georgia, fiction, Family life, fiction, Large type books, Reading (Elementary), Computer-assisted instruction, award:Newbery_award, lexile:890, lexile_range:801-900, age:min:9, age:max:12, grade:min:3, grade:max:7

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Sounder
Sounder
2003-09, Scholastic Inc.
in English
Cover of: Sounder
Sounder: with related readings
2001, Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
in English
Cover of: Sounder
Sounder
2001, Perennial
in English - 1st Perennial classics ed.
Cover of: Sounder
Sounder
1993, Scholastic
in English
Cover of: Sounder
Sounder
1985, HarperTrophy Publishers, HarperTrophy
in English - 1st Harper Trophy ed., 1972
Cover of: Sounder
Sounder
1972, Harper & Row
in English - First Harrow paperback ed.
Cover of: Sounder
Sounder
1970, Harper & Row
in English
Cover of: Sounder
Sounder
1970, HarperCollins
library binding in English
Cover of: Sounder
Sounder
1970, Harper & Row
in English
Cover of: Sounder
Sounder
1969, Scholastic
Paperback in English

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Library of Congress
PZ7.A73394 So, .A73394 So, PZ7.A73394

The Physical Object

Format
library binding
Number of pages
128

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28199538M
Internet Archive
sounder00will_1
ISBN 10
0060201444
ISBN 13
9780060201449
LCCN
70085030
OCLC/WorldCat
24455

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Work Description

Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder.

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THE TALL MAN stood at the edge of the porch.
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