Sounder (Stories That Last a Lifetime)

Author(s): William H. Armstrong

Junior Fiction

Set in the 19th-century American South, this is the story a poor African-American sharecropping family, their faithful dog, Sounder, and the eldest boy's efforts to learn how to read and help his mother to support the family after his father is arrested for stealing a ham. When Sounder chases after the Sheriff's deputies he is shot and he crawls away, seemingly to die. For weeks the boy thinks that he has lost both his father and his dog, but then Sounder comes back, lame and missing an ear. The boy continues to search for his father, until a few years later the father returns home, disabled from a quarry accident. Reunited at last, the father and Sounder go on one final hunting trip together...

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William H. Armstrong (1911 - 1999) was an American children's author and educator, best known for his 1969 novel Sounder, which won the Newbery Medal.

General Fields

  • : 9780141359779
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.106
  • : June 2015
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 8mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : August 2015
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : William H. Armstrong
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 813.54
  • : 144