His wife and children were starving, so the black sharecropper stole a ham to feed them. When the posse came to get him, nobody could stop them. Not even Sounder, the might coon dog, who crawled away wounded from the sheriff's shotgun. For years, the son followed the chain gangs looking for his father. When the boy came home alone after each long trip, Sounder would hobble up the road to greet him silently. But suddenly, one day, the baying voice of the great coon hound broke the stillness of the August afternoon once again.
year: 1969, 1987, 1972, 2001, 1989, 2008, 2003, 1999, 2006, 1971, 2002, 4519, 1982
call number/section: 1000, 5, 920
subjects: dogs, juvenile fiction, poverty, fiction, african americans, family life, large type books, families, audiobooks, newbery medal, family, fiction, children's audiobooks, compact discs, closed caption video recordings, great depression, 1929-1939, television adaptations, sharecroppers, dvds, pets, animals, animal films, television adaptations, made for tv movies, dvd-video discs
Editions
Armstrong, William Howard
HarperCollins (1969)
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.
Schools: 72
Armstrong, William Howard
ABC-Clio (1987)
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young African American boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.
Schools: 5
Armstrong, William Howard
HarperTrophy (1972)
A young African-American boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. Learning to read and to discover that things do not die, but become part of other things, brings the youngster new hope.
Schools: 27
Armstrong, William Howard
Perennial (2001)
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.
Schools: 5
Armstrong, William Howard
Perennial Library (1989)
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding with the help of the devoted dog Sounder, and also by learning to read.
Schools: 2
Armstrong, William Howard
Harper Children's Audio (2008)
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young African-American boy grows in courage and understanding with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.
Schools: 4
Armstrong, William Howard
Scholastic (2003)
A young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder.
Schools: 2
Armstrong, William Howard
Library Reproduction Service (1999)
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 with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.
Schools: 1
Armstrong, William Howard
Harper Children's Audio (2006)
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young African-American boy grows in courage and understanding with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.
Schools: 1
Armstrong, William
Random House
Schools: 0
Armstrong, William
s.n.
Schools: 0
Armstrong, William Howard
A young Negro boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. Learning to read and to discover that things do not die but become part of other things brings the youngster new hope.
Schools: 0
Armstrong
Schools: 0
Armstrong, William
Schools: 0
Armstrong, William Howard
Gollancz (1971)
Schools: 1
Armstrong, William H.
(2002)
In Depression-era Louisiana, an African-American boy sets out to find his father, who has been sent to a labor camp after stealing food for his starving family, and struggles to cope with the shooting death of the faithful family dog.
Schools: 4
William H. Armstrong
HarperTrophy (4519)
His wife and children were starving, so the black sharecropper stole a ham to feed them. When the posse came to get him, nobody could stop them. Not even Sounder, the might coon dog, who crawled away wounded from the sheriff's shotgun. For years, the son followed the chain gangs looking for his father. When the boy came home alone after each long trip, Sounder would hobble up the road to greet him silently. But suddenly, one day, the baying voice of the great coon hound broke the stillness of the August afternoon once again.
Schools: 0
Armstrong, William Howard
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.
Schools: 0
Armstrong, William Howard
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.
Schools: 0
Armstrong, William Howard
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.
Schools: 0
Armstrong, William Howard
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.
Schools: 0
Armstrong, William Howard
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.
Schools: 0
Armstrong, William Howard
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.
Schools: 0
Armstrong, William Howard
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.
Schools: 0
Armstrong, William Howard
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.
Schools: 0
Armstrong, William
s.n.
Schools: 1
Armstrong, William Howard
Schools: 1
Armstrong, William Howard
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 with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.
Schools: 1
Armstrong, William Howard
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 with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.
Schools: 1
Armstrong, William H.
The Rainbow Group, Ltd (1982)
"Sounder is the heartwarming story of a black sharecropper family in Louisiana during the depression." -cover. (105 min.).
Schools: 1
Armstrong, William Howard
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.
Schools: 1
Armstrong, William Howard
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.
Schools: 1
Armstrong, William Howard
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.
Schools: 1
Armstrong, William Howard
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.
Schools: 1
Armstrong, William Howard
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.
Schools: 1
Armstrong
Schools: 1