The Newbery Medal-winning classic novel about the courage and faith--and the love of a dog--that give a family strength in the face of inhumanity. The boy knows that times are tough for his family. Every night, his father goes out hunting with...
The Newbery Medal-winning classic novel about the courage and faith--and the love of a dog--that give a family strength in the face of inhumanity. The boy knows that times are tough for his family. Every night, his father goes out hunting with their...
Sounder is a remarkable story, compassionate, powerfully moving, showing the qualities of dignity and endurance at their highest, in both man and beast. A memorable dog story, it is also the chronicle of a man, a woman, and a boy, equally hard to forget. . . . Sounder...
Est? por finalizar el Siglo XIX. Para los Estados Unidos de Am?rica ha sido un per?odo violento; el pa?s reci?n comienza a recuperarse de una sangrienta guerra civil. Una familia sure?a apenas sobrelleva su penosa situaci?n econ?mica. El padre est? totalmente desesperado porque...
A young boy's world is shattered when his father, a poor black sharecropper, is jailed for stealing food for his family
From the South comes this compelling story of a family of black sharecroppers and their coonhound, Sounder. When the family goes hungry, the father steals a ham and is later sent to jail. Uncertain where his father has been imprisoned, the oldest son begins a frantic search that...
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 life...