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The Watsons go to Birmingham--1963

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.

Main Author: Curtis, Christopher Paul.
Other Authors: Burton, LeVar.
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language: English
Published: Santa Ana, CA : Listening Library, p2003.
Edition: Library ed.
Subjects:
African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
Family life > Juvenile fiction.
Prejudices > Juvenile fiction.
Brothers and sisters > Juvenile fiction.
Flint (Mich.) > Juvenile fiction.
Children's audiobooks.
Online Access: Go to Downloadable Audiobook Here.
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.
Item Description: Unabridged.
Compact disc.
Physical Description: 4 sound discs (ca. 5 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Awards: Newbery Honor Book, 1996
ISBN: 0807217778 (CD) :
Author Notes: Newbery Medal-winning children's book author Christopher Paul Curtis was born in Flint, Michigan on May 10, 1953 and graduated from The University of Michigan. While there he won the Avery and Jules Hopwood Prizes for poetry and a draft of one of his early books. Curtis spent thirteen years on an assembly line hanging car doors.

His story The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 received a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor, and Bud, Not Buddy became the first novel to win both of these awards. Elijah of Buxton received the 2008 Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award, the Coretta Scott King Award, and a Newbery Honor. Curtis also won the 2009 Anne V. Zarrow Award for Young Readers' Literature.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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