From Our Editors
Ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Watsons of Flint, Mich., are
heading for Birmingham, Ala., and one of the darkest moments in
American history. In The Watsons Go to Birmingham -
1963, take a journey to the racially turbulent South.
What awards hasn't this absorbing, lyrical novel won? Besides
receiving the 1996 Newbery Honor Book Award, it won the 1996
Coretta Scott King Honor Book Award, an ALA Notable Book, an ALA
Best Book for Young Adults and - phew - it's a New York Times
Book Review Best Book.
From the Publisher
When Kenny Watson's brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble,
the Watson family heads south 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 bombed.
From the Jacket
A wonderful middle-grade novel narrated by Kenny, 9, about his middle-class black family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. When Kenny''s 13-year-old brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble, they head South 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.
About the Author
Christopher Paul Curtis was born in Flint, Michigan, and grew up
there. Bud, Not Buddy, his second novel, winner of the
2000 Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Author Award, is
available in a Delacorte hardcover edition.
From the Paperback edition.
Trade Paperback
224 Pages, 5.27 x 7.79 x 0.59 in
September 8, 1997
Random House Children's Books
0440414121
9780440414124