Saturday, August 17, 2013

Historical Fiction Book Talk: Sounder


Armstrong, W.H. (1969). Sounder. New York: HarperCollins.



Please enjoy a booktalk on my historical fiction selection. Click here for audio
      My name is Sounder. You can hear my voice all through the woods when I get a coon or possum caught up in wild grapevines or an old persimmon tree.  My redbone hound voice carries on until I catch another scent.  The boy says, "There ain’t no dog like Sounder.”  I reckon he is right. Being a sharecropper’s dog is a hard life…little food, cold nights, lots of hunting. Times get even harder when the men come with guns and take away the boy’s father. No more long hunts in the cold, windy woods.  No more calloused hands on my neck and whispers of “good Sounder, good Sounder” after a hunt. I chased after the boy’s father, I got hurt and I couldn’t find him.  If I don’t have my voice, life won’t be the same at the cabin with the boy.  Read my story and find out what happens to me, the boy, and the boy’s father in Sounder by William H. Armstrong.

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