Sounder
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Kent School...year after Gordonstoun School, Scotland) William H. Armstrong, Kent teacher for decades. Author of "Study is Hard Work" and the novel, "Sounder", which received the 1970 John Newbery Medal for "the most distinguished contribution to... In this article: Kent School, National Football League, United States, 2012 Summer Olympic Games, Pulitzer Prize in Music, Prix de Rome, and Order of the Holy Cross |
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Wikipedia | October 23, 2009
Sounder
Sounder is a young adult novel by William H. Armstrong. It is the story of an African-American boy living with his sharecropper family in Depression-era Louisiana. Although the family's difficulties increase when the father is imprisoned...
In this article: Sounder, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Chicken, Bulldog, Dog, Newbery Award, Lonne Elder III, and Disney
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Wikipedia | October 18, 2009
William H. Armstrong
...- April 11, 1999 in Kent, Connecticut) was an American children's author and educator, best known for his 1969 Newbery Medal-winning novel, Sounder. After growing up on a farm near Lexington, Virginia, he graduated cum laude from...
In this article: Kent School, Hampden-Sydney College, Newbery Medal, Kent, Connecticut, Lexington, Virginia, Self-help, Lewis Carroll Shelf Award, and Esther
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Wikipedia | October 18, 2009
N.Y.P.D.
...by writers like Lonne Elder, who would later be the first African-American nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar (for 1972's Sounder), the stories came with such titles as Cruise to Oblivion, Which Side Are You On?, The Screaming Woman,...
In this article: N.Y.P.D., David Susskind, New York City Police Department, Harvey Keitel, Malcolm X, Suicide, Iron Cross, and Lonne Elder
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Wikipedia | October 04, 2009
Mark Twain Award
...four through six in Missouri schools can vote for their favorite book from an annual list of nominees. The 1970 Newberry Award winning book Sounder, by William H. Armstrong, was the inaugural winner of the award in 1972. Books should...
In this article: Mark Twain, Newberry Award, Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Missouri, and United States
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Wikipedia | August 30, 2009
Sounder (film)
...Taj Mahal , and Eric Hooks. It was adapted by Lonne Elder III and directed by Martin Ritt from the 1970 Newbery Medal-winning novel Sounder by William H. Armstrong and spawned a sequel, Part 2, Sounder (1976). Differences between the...
In this article: Sounder, Paul Winfield, Kevin Hooks, Lonne Elder III, Academy Award, Newbery Medal, Disney, and Taj Mahal
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Wikipedia | July 19, 2009
Lonne Elder III
...the first African Americans to be nominated for the Academy Award for writing. Elder was nominated for ''Sounder '', while De Passe was nominated for the film ''Lady Sings the Blues ''. Elder was born in Americus, Georgia but raised in...
In this article: Lonne Elder III, Yale, Suzanne de Passe, A Raisin in the Sun, Academy Award, Negro Ensemble Company, Bobo, and Lorraine Hansberry
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Chicago Sun-Times | January 02, 2009
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...that he doesn't just love dogs in real life, but is a sucker for a good pooch film. "When it comes to movies with dogs, I like 'Sounder' and 'Where the Red Fern Grows,'" says Wilson. Who is more high maintenance -- a problem dog or a...
In this article: Owen Wilson, Tom Cruise, Dog, Matthew Broderick, Sam Mendes, Will Smith, Top Gun, Jennifer Aniston, and Bryan Singer
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www.washingtonpost.com | October 02, 2007
Racial Slur Part of 5th-Graders' Lesson
...was not immediately returned. A parent, Clifford Branan, said his son's teacher assigned the homework Friday, as a supplement to "Sounder," a book his class is reading. The book is commonly used in classrooms nationwide to illustrate racial...
In this article: E-mail, Chattanooga, and Tennessee
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Sounder is a young adult novel by William H. Armstrong. It is the story of an African-American boy living with his sharecropper family in Depression-era Louisiana. Although the family's difficulties increase when the father is imprisoned for stealing pig meat and chicken, the boy still hungers for an education.
Sounder won the Newbery Award in 1970, and was made in to a major motion picture in 1972.
- Name:
- Sounder
- Country of Origin:
- Canada
- Genre:
- Children's
- Succeeded By:
- Sour Land, The MacLeod Place
- Written By:
- William H. Armstrong
- Published By:
- HarperTrophy
- Length:
- 128 pp
- Media Type:
- Print (Hardback & Paperback)
- Cover Artist:
- James Ransome
- Language:
- English
- Published Date:
- 1969
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