Sounder /
by William H. Armstrong. Illus. by James Barkley.
- New York : Harper & Row, [1969]
- 116 p. : illus. ; 22 cm.
A young Negro boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. Learning to read and to discover that things do not die but become part of other things brings the youngster new hope.