Descriptions, Reviews, etc.
Description:
This Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Award winner is now a Hallmark Channel Original Movie. When Kenny Watson's brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble, the family travels from Michigan to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they happen to be in Birmingham when Grandma's church is blown up.
Review Quotes: AN ALA TOP TEN BEST BOOK
AN ALA NOTABLE CHILDREN'S BOOK
AN IRA YOUNG ADULT'S CHOICE
A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW BEST BOOK
NAMED TO MULTIPLE STATE AWARD LISTS
"This is a book that changes lives. It certainly changed mine." --Kate DiCamillo, two-time Newbery Medalist
"I identify with so much in Christopher Paul Curtis's engrossing classic,
The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963." --David Barclay Moore, winner of the Coretta Scott King John Steptoe Award for New Talent
"An exceptional first novel."--
Publishers Weekly, starred review
"Superb . . . a warmly memorable evocation of an African American family." --
The Horn Book Magazine, starred review
"Ribald humor . . . and a totally believable child's view of the world will make this book an instant hit."--
School Library Journal, starred review
