Sounder
About this book
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.
Subjects
- african american
- african americans
- african americans, fiction
- african americans in fiction
- afro-americans
- age:max:12
- age:min:9
- animals
- award:nēnē_award
- award:newbery_award
- children: grades 4-6
- childrens
- children's books
- children's fiction
- children's stories
- classics
- computer-assisted instruction
- dogs
- dogs, fiction
- dogs in fiction
- families
- family
- family life
- family life, fiction
- family life in fiction
- fiction
- georgia, fiction
- grade:max:7
- grade:min:3
- historical
- historical fiction
- juvenile fiction
- large type books
- lexile:890
- lexile_range:801-900
- middle grade
- newbery medal
- noirs américains
- pauvreté
- poverty
- poverty, fiction
- poverty in fiction
- reading (elementary)
- romans, nouvelles
- southern states, fiction
- young adult