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Garden Heights
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Garden Heights · Independent Novel Study
Sounder
a novel by William H. Armstrong
Level 4 · Strong ReadersUS Grade 5Lexile 900LAR (ATOS) 5.3 · Newbery Medal (1970)
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HarperCollins — Harper Perennial (paperback) edition — ISBN
9780064400206.
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Subject Personalities
The real-world subjects this novel study leans into — the depth behind every Knowledge Bank and reading passage.
PRIMARY LENS
🌾 Life After Slavery in the South
Sharecropping debt, trials without justice, chain gangs and convict leasing — the real history under the story.
SUPPORTING
🐕 The Hunting Dog
How a coonhound follows a scent trail, and how a dog’s body changes as it grows old.
SUPPORTING
📖 Reading and Learning
Schools Black communities built for themselves, Montaigne’s essays, and why a boy fights to read.
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