W. Ross Macdonald School Library

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 /

Curtis, Christopher Paul, 1953- ,

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 / a novel by Christopher Paul Curtis. - Enlarged by W. Ross Macdonald School. - New York : Yearling, 1995. - 210 pages : comb binding ; 38 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.

Ages 9 and up.


This work in alternate format is reproduced with the permission of the Canadian Reprography Collection. The books are financed by the Ministry of Education, Ontario and are lent without charge to visually handicapped students.



Newbery Honor, 1996 Coretta Scott King Award for Author, 1996

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African Americans--Fiction.
Families--Fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
Brothers and sisters--Fiction.
Problem children--Fiction.
16th Street Baptist Church Bombing, Birmingham, Ala., 1963--Juvenile fiction.


Alabama--Juvenile fiction.


Large type books.
FICTION / Historical / 20th Century / Post-World War II
FICTION / African American & Black / Historical.

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