(Paperback)

When Sounder chases after the Sheriff's deputies he is shot and he crawls away, seemingly to die. For weeks the boy thinks that he has lost both his father and his dog, but then Sounder comes back, lame and missing an ear. The boy continues to search for his father, until a few years later the father returns home, disabled from a quarry accident.

(Paperback)

Set in the deep South, this is the tale about the courage and love that bind a black sharecropping family together, despite extreme prejudice and inhumanity from the outside world.