Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

Description: The bestselling Newbery Honor-winning story of an African-American family's experience traveling through the South in the turbulent 1960s. Ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons, make their way from Flint, Michigan to visit Grandma in Birmingham, Alabama, and travel through one of the darkest moments in American history.

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

"The Watsons--a Newbery and Coretta Scott King honoree--opens the door to important conversation." --Laurie Halse Anderson, The New York Times

★ "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