num_pages: 128
description: "Sounder, a landmark in children's literature, traces the keen sorrow and the abiding faith of a poor African-American boy in the nineteenth-century South. The boy's father is a 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.
language: English
title: Sounder
titlecomplete: Sounder (Summer Reading Edition)
genres: Classics, Historical, Dogs, Childrens, African American, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Historical Fiction, Animals, Fiction
ratings_count: 29984
awards: awardedAt: 28800000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 28800000
name: Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, awardedAt: 94723200000
name: Nene Award, awardedAt: 31564800000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award
publisher: HarperTrophy