Los Watson Van a Birmingham - 1963

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Author:

Curtis, Christopher Paul
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ISBN:

978-1-63245-640-3

Publication Date:

Dec 2016

Publisher:

Lectorum Publications, Incorporated

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

USD $12.99

Book Description:

Enter the world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. When Momma and Dad decide it's time for a visit to Grandma, Dad comes home with the amazing Ultra-Glide, and the Watsons head South to Birmingham, Alabama...toward one of the darkest moments in America's history

Book Details

Pages:	200
Detailed Subjects:	Juvenile Fiction / General Juvenile Fiction / African American & Black Juvenile Fiction / Family / General Juvenile Fiction / Social Themes / Prejudice & Racism Juvenile Fiction / Family / Siblings Juvenile Fiction / Places / United States

Author Biography

Curtis, Christopher Paul (Author)

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.

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