Sounder.
- New York : Harper & Row, 1969.
- 116 p. : ill ; 22 cm. Lexile 900.
Trade books, upper elementary.
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.
African Americans--Fiction. Dogs--Fiction. Family life--Fiction. Poverty--Fiction. Newbery medal winner.