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Sounder (1969) (edit title/settings)

by William Howard Armstrong (Author) (edit contributors)

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The Powerful Newbery Award-Winning Classic A landmark in children's literature, winner of the 1970 Newbery Medal, and the basis of an acclaimed film, Sounder traces the keen sorrow and the abiding faith of a poor African-American boy in the 19th-century South.

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The boy is suffuring with little food ever day. Every night his father and his coon dog would go out and try to catch food to eat. They never really cought anything but one morning the boy work up to a delicious smell of bacon. After breakfast a sheriff was at the door and was saying that his... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

The boy is suffuring with little food ever day. Every night his father and his coon dog would go out and try to catch food to eat. They never really cought anything but one morning the boy work up to a delicious smell of bacon. After breakfast a sheriff was at the door and was saying that his father was under arest. He had stolen the food. Sounder the coon dog ran after the car and the sheriff shot him. He limped into the woods and the boys family was very sad. Now the family had to work very hard on the farm because they didnt have their father. The boy aslo visited his father every Saturday and brought his something to eat. His brother and sister would stay away from home at daytime so the sheriff wouldnt see them. Day after day the boy searched for Souder. Months passed then finally the boy found Sounder under his house missing a leg. It was a snowy day the boy was outside. Then he saw a slight shadow that came closer and closer. Then he could make out a body and then saw a face. It was his father. That night the entire family ate together including Sounder. They were happier than ever.

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  • “There ain't no dog like Sounder,”
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  • “One’s a ham cookin’ and the other’s a thievin’ nigger.”
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  • The boy started to raise his hands, but the man was already reaching over the stove, snapping handcuffs on the outstretched wrists of his father.
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  • THE TALL MAN stood at the edge of the porch. The roof sagged from the two rough posts
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  • “Where did you first get Sounder?” the boy asked. “I never got him. He came to me along the road when he wasn’t more’n a pup.”
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  • “One day I will learn to read,” he said to himself. He would have a book with stories in it, then he wouldn’t be lonesome even if his mother didn’t sing.
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  • “Here’s the evidence,” said the first man. He jerked at the grease-spotted cloth on the tin-topped table. The oak slab and the half-eaten ham fell to the floor with a great thud and slid against the wall.
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  • “You know who I am,” said the first man as he unbuttoned his heavy brown coat and pulled it back to show a shiny metal star pinned to his vest. “These are my deputies.” The stranger nearest the door kicked it shut and swore about the cold.
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  • He ran his fingers back and forth over the broad crown of the head of a coon dog named Sounder.
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  • life is so tiresome, there ain’t no peace like the greatest peace—the peace of the Lord’s hand holding you. And he’ll have a store-bought box for burial ’cause all these years I paid close attention to his burial insurance.
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THE TALL MAN stood at the edge of the porch.

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This is book 843 of 986 in 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up. (authoritative list)

Preceded by The Cay, and followed by Where the Lilies Bloom.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. William Howard Armstrong (Author)

Other Contributors:

  1. James Barkley (Illustrator)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Harper & Row
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1969
ISBN: 0060809752
Page Count: 116

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  • Library of Congress: PZ7.A73394 So
  • Dewey: <Fic>

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