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Armstrong, William Howard, 1914-

Sounder / - New York : Harper & Row, [1969] - 116 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Mark Twain Award Winner 1972.

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.

Newbery Award, 1970

ISBN: 0060201436 9780060201432 0060201444 (lib. bdg.) 9780060201449 (lib. bdg.) 0606049622 (Turtleback) 9780606049627 (Turtleback) 0064471535 (pbk.) 9780064471534 (pbk.)

LCCN: 70085030

Subjects--Topical Terms:
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Dogs--Fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
Poverty--Fiction.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Juvenile literature--1969.

LC Class. No.: PZ7.A73394

Dewey Class. No.: [Fic]