Sounder is a young adult novel by William H. Armstrong. It is the story of an African-American boy living with his sharecropper family in Depression-era Louisiana. Although the family's difficulties increase when the father is imprisoned for stealing pig meat and chicken, the boy still hungers for an education.
Sounder won the Newbery Award in 1970, and was made in to a major motion picture in 1972.
Sounder is based on a true story. The main char...
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Sounder is a young adult novel by William H. Armstrong. It is the story of an African-American boy living with his sharecropper family in Depression-era Louisiana. Although the family's difficulties increase when the father is imprisoned for stealing pig meat and chicken, the boy still hungers for an education.
Sounder won the Newbery Award in 1970, and was made in to a major motion picture in 1972.
Sounder is based on a true story. The main character, the family's eldest son, is simply named boy. His father is a sharecropper, and works hard for very little money. His mother tries hard to make the best out of what little food they have. The "Sounder" of the title is the father's devoted hunting coon dog (a mixture of Georgia redbone hound and bulldog), named for his loud voice. Sounder is badly injured when shot by a shotgun while he chases the men who take his master away, on charges of stealing a piece of meat in order to feed his family..
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