The Watsons go to Birminghan--1963
by Christopher Paul Curtis, Reginald André Jackson, and Eida de la Vega
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Ten-year-old Kenny chronicles the events of a fateful summer for the Watson family of Flint, Michigan, in this hilarious and deeply moving story. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and teenage brother Byron, who can't seem to stay out of trouble. Concerned about this budding juvenile delinquent in their family, Momma and Dad decide it's time for Byron to have a lengthy stay with strict Grandma Sands in Birmingham, Alabama. The family piles into the Brown Bomber and heads south -- toward a horrific moment in American history: the bombing of the Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church during which four young black girls are killed.
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The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963: a novel
2000, Dell Laurel Leaf
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044022800X 9780440228004
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963
1998, Scholastic, Inc.
Paperback
in English
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0590032380 9780590032384
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"From the Newbury and Coretta Scott King honor book novel by Christopher Paul Curtis."--Cover.
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The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
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