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

...- 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

...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,...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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

...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...

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...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...

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