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One of my favorite Newbery books. A story I want every child, every adult to read. A father (no proper nouns are ever used except for the name of the dog, Sounder) and his family are hungry. The weather makes hunting impossible. The father makes a decision to steal a ham for his children. But he is soon caught. When the men come to take the father to jail, they take a shot at Sounder and Sounder disappears. The father is sent to jail and then to work on a chain gang. For much of the book, the fa
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This is one of the more depressing Newbery winners I've read. It follows the story of the boy who is the son of a black sharecropper in the US South. In the beginning of the story, the boy's father is taken to prison by the sheriff and his cronies. While they are dragging the father away, they also shoot the family's coon dog, Sounder, who then runs off wounded. The story doesn't get much happier from there. It is a well written story, but not my favorite.
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