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.
Genres
- Children: Grades 4-6
- Dogs
- Poverty
- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans
- Family life
- Fiction
- Dogs in fiction
- Family life in fiction
- African Americans in fiction
- Poverty in fiction
- Newbery Medal
- Family
- Noirs américains
- Families
- Pauvreté
- Romans, nouvelles
- Afro-Americans
- Children's stories
- Children's fiction
- Dogs, fiction
- Poverty, fiction
- African americans, fiction
- Georgia, fiction
- Family life, fiction
- Large type books
- Reading (Elementary)
- Computer-assisted instruction
- award:Newbery_award
- lexile:890
- lexile_range:801-900
- age:min:9
- age:max:12
- grade:min:3
- grade:max:7
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