01172cam a2200325 4500 68921782 TxAuBib 20070125120000.0 ||||||s1972||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 70-085030 9780064400206 0064400204 IJPBB TxAuBib Armstrong, William Howard. Sounder / by William H. Armstrong ; illustrations by James Barkley. New York : HarperTrophy, 1972. 116 p. : ill. 5.3. Newbery Medal, 1970. 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. Accelerated Reader MG 5.3 3.0 84. 20070125. African Americans Fiction. African Americans Juvenile fiction. Dogs Fiction. Family life Fiction. Poverty Fiction. 20 cm. Barkley, James.