Sounder,
by William H. Armstrong. Illus. by James Barkley.
- New York, Harper & Row [1969]
- 116 p. illus. 22 cm.
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.
70085030 /AC/r87
Afro-Americans--Fiction. Dogs--Fiction. Family life--Fiction. Poverty--Fiction.