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Sounder
William H. Armstrong
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Description for Sounder
Paperback. When Sounder chases after the Sheriff's deputies he is shot and he crawls away, seemingly to die. For weeks the boy thinks that he has lost both his father and his dog, but then Sounder comes back, lame and missing an ear. The boy continues to search for his father, until a few years later the father returns home, disabled from a quarry accident. Series: A Puffin Book. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 5AK; YFB. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 131 x 197 x 14. Weight in Grams: 110.
SOUNDER by William H. Armstrong is set in the 19th-century American South. It is the story a poor African-American sharecropping family, their faithful dog, Sounder, and the eldest boy's efforts to learn how to read and help his mother to support the family after his father is arrested for stealing a ham. When Sounder chases after the Sheriff's deputies he is shot and he crawls away, seemingly to die. For weeks the boy thinks that he has lost both his father and his dog, but then Sounder comes back, lame and missing an ear. The boy continues to search for ... Read more
SOUNDER by William H. Armstrong is set in the 19th-century American South. It is the story a poor African-American sharecropping family, their faithful dog, Sounder, and the eldest boy's efforts to learn how to read and help his mother to support the family after his father is arrested for stealing a ham. When Sounder chases after the Sheriff's deputies he is shot and he crawls away, seemingly to die. For weeks the boy thinks that he has lost both his father and his dog, but then Sounder comes back, lame and missing an ear. The boy continues to search for ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Random House Children´s UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Series
A Puffin Book
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141359779
SKU
V9780141359779
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About William H. Armstrong
William H. Armstrong (1911 - 1999) was an American children's author and educator, best known for his 1969 novel Sounder, which won the Newbery Medal.
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