The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 / a novel by Christopher Paul Curtis. [print]

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Curtis, Christopher Paul [Author]

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text

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unmediated

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volume

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0385321759

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PZ73.C978.W387 1995
PZ73.C978.W387 1995

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Awards:

Newbery Honor Book, 1996

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Juvenile Book (10-day checkout)	G. Allen Fleece Library Newbery Award Collection - Second Floor	Fiction	PZ7.C94137 Wat 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31923000926978

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

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