"SOUNDER" BOOK REVIEW

I, Eva, just read a book called "Sounder," by William H. Armstrong. It is about a sharecropper boy, his three younger siblings, mama and papa and his coondog Sounder. They are in a bad situation, and aren't treated very nicely by anybody, except for one man, who invited the boy to live with him and taught him how to read and write. When the boy first goes to the man's house, he is so surprised, because the man has two lamps lit at one time. The boy makes it sound like his younger siblings are too curious, and asking too many questions, and he talks about them in a strict way.

There are three words I can describe the book with: sad, interesting, and exciting. It is sad because the boy loses loved ones. It is interesting, because they go through a life I have never experienced, or never thought there was. It was exciting because every time I went to read, a big change would happen, like somebody would go to jail. I think most people would enjoy reading this book.

by Eva