The Powerful Newbery Award-Winning Classic A landmark in children’s literature,winner of the 1970 Newbery Medaland the basis of an acclaimed filmSounder traces the keen sorrow and the abiding faith of a poor African-American boy in the 19th-century South. The boy’s father isa sharecropperstruggling to feed his family in hard times. Night after nighthe and his great coon dogSounderreturn to the cabin empty-handed. Thenone morningalmost like a miraclea sweet-smelling ham is cooking in the family’s kitchen. At last the family will have a good meal. But that nightan angry sheriff and his deputies comeand the boy’s life will never be the same. A landmark in children’s literaturewinner of the 1970 Newbery Medal and the basis of an acclaimed filmSounder traces the keen sorrow and the abiding faith of a poor African-American boy in the 19th-century South.