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.)
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Reviewed on: 09/08/1997
Genre: Children's
Hardcover - 224 pages - 978-0-385-32175-4
Other - 119 pages - 978-0-385-38295-3
Other - 132 pages - 978-0-385-72985-7
