Sounder
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<p>The Powerful Newbery Award-Winning Classic</p><p>A landmark in children's literature, winner of the 1970 Newbery Medal, and the basis of an acclaimed film, <i>Sounder</i> traces the keen sorrow and the abiding faith of a poor African-American boy in the 19th-century South. The boy's father isa sharecropper, struggling to feed his family in hard times. Night after night, he and his great coon dog, Sounder, return to the cabin empty-handed. Then, one morning, almost like a miracle, a sweet-smelling ham is cooking in the family's kitchen. At last the family will have a good meal. But that night, an angry sheriff and his deputies come, and the boy's life will never be the same.</p><p>A landmark in children's literature, winner of the 1970 Newbery Medal and the basis of an acclaimed film, <i>Sounder</i> traces the keen sorrow and the abiding faith of a poor African-American boy in the 19th-century South.</p>
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