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Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963
by Christopher Paul Curtis
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Nine-year-old Kenny narrates this story about his middle-class, African-American family and their 1963 trip from Flint, Michigan to Birmingham, Alabama. The trip's purpose is two-fold--to visit their grandmother, and to get Kenny's older brother away from the rough crowd he has been running with. Sadly, racism rears its ugly head as the family travels through the South, eventually culminating in the bombing of Kenny's grandmother's church while his younger sister and many others are inside.
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9780440228004,
Paperback,
Laurel Leaf,
2001
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9780786264063,
Paperback,
Thorndike Pr,
2004
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9780807283356,
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Listening Library,
2000
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9780807283349,
Audio Cassette,
Books on Tape,
2000
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9780307243171,
Compact Disc,
Listening Library,
2005
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9780030547898,
Hardcover,
Holt Rinehart & Winston,
1998
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9780440228363,
Paperback,
Bantam Books,
1999
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9780786227419,
Hardcover,
Thorndike Pr,
2000
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9780385321754,
Hardcover,
Delacorte Pr,
1995
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9780440414124,
Paperback,
Yearling Books,
1997
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9780613034944,
Prebinding,
Bt Bound,
1999
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9780553477863,
Audio Cassette,
Listening Library,
1996
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9780613851114,
Prebinding,
Bt Bound,
2000
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"...warmhearted and luxuriously padded with humor."
Synopses
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.
First Line
It was one of those super-duper cold Saturdays. One of those days that when you breathed out your breath kind of hung frozen in the air like a hunk of smoke and you cold walk along and looking exactly like a train blowing out big, fat, white puffs of smoke.
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