Sounder A Newbery Award Winner

Name: Sounder A Newbery Award Winner
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ISBN: 9780064400206

ISBN-10: 0064400204

ISBN-13: 9780064400206

Edition: 1969 (Reprint)

Authors: William H. Armstrong, James Barkley

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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. The boy's father is a sharecropper, struggling to feed his family in hard times. Night after night, he and his great coon dog, Sounder, return to the cabin empty-handed. Then, one morning, almost like a miracle, a sweet-smelling ham is cooking in the family's kitchen. At last the family will have a good meal. But that night, an angry sheriff and his deputies come, and the boy's life will never be the same. A landmark in children's…

Book details

List price: $9.99
Copyright year: 1969
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 12/30/2019
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 5.12" wide x 7.62" long x 0.26" tall
Weight: 0.198
Language: English

William H. Armstrong grew up in Lexington, Virginia. He graduated from Hampden-Sydney College and did graduate work at the University of Virginia. He taught ancient history and study techniques at the Kent School for fifty-two years. Author of more than a dozen books for adults and children, he won the John Newbery Medal for Sounder in 1970 and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Hampden-Sydney College in 1986.