- Children: Grades 4-6, Dogs, Poverty, Juvenile fiction
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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Earnest, classical in form, grave and intimate.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- William H. Armstrong
- First published
- June 1970
- Pages
- 116
- Publisher
- Harper & Row, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Harrow Books
- Editions
- 60
- Language
- English, und
- ISBN
- 9781559946711
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Newbery Award winning American author.
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