

Sounder
Author: William H. Armstrong
Narrator: Avery Brooks
Unabridged: 2 hr 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 01/03/2006
Author: William H. Armstrong
Narrator: Avery Brooks
Unabridged: 2 hr 21 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 01/03/2006
William H. Armstrong grew up in Lexington, Virginia. He graduated from Hampden-Sydney College and did graduate work at the University of Virginia. He taught ancient history and study techniques at the Kent School for fifty-two years. Author of more than a dozen books for adults and children, he won the John Newbery Medal for Sounder in 1970 and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Hampden-Sydney College in 1986.
Avery Brooks is an accomplished actor, director, musician, and teacher. His credits include the television role of Captain Benjamin Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He served as the National Black Arts Festival's Artistic Director throughout the 1990s and is an Associate Professor of Theater Arts at Rutgers University.
"I had a father and a dog named Sounder…" Believe it or not, this was my first time reading this classic Newbery award-winning book. I’m not sure why I didn’t read it as a child – I certainly read my fair share of animal books. I have to wonder if I would have felt the same overwhelming sense of lone......more
I missed reading this book in junior high, but it has been on my to read list for years. This powerful story about love and commitment is both inspired and heartbreaking. An African American family is torn apart when the father is arrested for stealing a ham. Sounder (his dog) is shot as he runs aft......more