The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 /a novel by Christopher Paul Curtis.
Curtis, Christopher Paul,
The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 /a novel by Christopher Paul Curtis. - New York : Delacorte Press, (c)1995. - 210 pages ; 22 cm.
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. A hilarious, touching, and tragic novel about civil rights and the impact of violence on one African American family. Narrated by Kenny, 9, the story tells about his middle-class black family, the Watsons of Flint, Michigan, and their trip to Birmingham, Alabama, to visit Grandma. They happen to be in Birmingham when Grandma's church is bombed.
Newbery Honor Book, 1996
95007091
960208909
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Prejudices--United States--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
PZ73 / .W387 1995 PZ73
The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 /a novel by Christopher Paul Curtis. - New York : Delacorte Press, (c)1995. - 210 pages ; 22 cm.
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. A hilarious, touching, and tragic novel about civil rights and the impact of violence on one African American family. Narrated by Kenny, 9, the story tells about his middle-class black family, the Watsons of Flint, Michigan, and their trip to Birmingham, Alabama, to visit Grandma. They happen to be in Birmingham when Grandma's church is bombed.
Newbery Honor Book, 1996
95007091
960208909
African Americans--Juvenile fiction.
Prejudices--United States--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
Prejudices--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
PZ73 / .W387 1995 PZ73