cover image The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

Christopher Paul Curtis. Yearling Books, $6.99 (224pp) ISBN 978-0-440-41412-4

A 1996 Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor book, this comic tale, narrated by a 10-year-old boy, describes an eccentric family's unwitting trip South to visit Grandma--during one of the stormiest times of the Civil Rights movement. PW's boxed, starred review called it ""an exceptional first novel."" Ages 10-up. (Oct.)