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The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 : a novel
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The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 : a novel

Author: Christopher Paul Curtis
Publisher: Austin : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1999.
Series: HRW Library
Edition/Format: Book : Fiction : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
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.
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Material Type: Fiction, Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Christopher Paul Curtis
ISBN: 003054789X 9780030547898
OCLC Number: 42283789
Description: 239 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Connections: Childtimes (memoir) from Childtimes: a three-generation memoir / by Eloise Greenfield and Lessie Jones Little -- Grown-ups always ask (poem) / by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish -- Two interviews (oral history) from Oh, freedom! Kids talk about the Civil Rights Movement with the people who made it happen / by Casey King and Linda Barrett Osborne -- Schoolgirls killed in bombing (historical narrative) from Free at last: a history of the Civil Rights Movement and those who died in the struggle / by Sara Bullard -- Birmingham Sunday (poem) / by Langston Hughes -- Alabama burning: Spike Lee documents the killing of four black girls (Internet document) / by Gary Susman -- Christopher Paul Curtis (biographical sketch).
Series Title: HRW Library
Other Titles: Connections, Watsons go to Birmingham--1963 with Connections
Responsibility: by Christopher Paul Curtis ; with Connections.

Abstract:

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.

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