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Summary: This book is the best!!!!
Review: This book is the best! I thought it was boring at first so I put it down, but then I read it for my book project and it was great!
It's about this black family that lives in Flint and it is freezing so they went to Birmingham. The youngest of the Watsons was in a church when it was bombed. It is a great book and I really recommend it.
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Summary: The Watson Go to Birmingham - 1963
Review: At the time of the Watson's family trip, the southern states were caught up in a struggle for basic human rights that became known as the civil rights movement. Although the Declaration of Independence states that all men are created equal and the Constitition had been amended after the Civil War to extend the rights and protections of citizenship to African Americans, changing the law of the land did not always change the way people behaved. This book here is a great way to introduce to students in grades 4-6 about how the movement began. It also illustrates how African American families lived in the north and south during this period of time. We feel that this is the most important theme from the book. The writer I must say does an excellent job in showing how African American families lived during that time through the eyes of young boy. Many things that the author wrote about were things that we actually thought about or experienced as children. I can not get over Byron getting his tongue stuck to the side mirror of the car. (...) Amber sees herself somewhat through Joetta because she was always defending for her sister when they were growing up. This book again was a good book to read but I recommend again that it be read by 4th, 5th and 6th graders.
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Summary: This was an EXCELLENT book!!!!!
Review: The Watsons Go To Birmingham was one of the best books I have ever read! Although it was a little confusing at times,I liked it very much.The reason that I liked it so much was because Christopher Paul Curtis took some real things and twisted it up a little.He mixed the real stuff with the made up stuff.By doing that,in my opinion,he just made it even better.The story made me realize that I'm not the only one with an, at times, wierd family.
The book was about a normal family with a mom,dad,younger brother named Kenny,older brother named Byron, and a younger sister named Joetta. In this family,odd things happen like when Byron, also known as daddy cool, was kissing his reflection and got his lips stuck to the rear view mirror of the car.
In addition to that,very intersting things started to happen while the family was in Birmingham.By the way,they went to Birmingham because they were going to leave Byron at Grandma Sands house. The things that happen in Birmingham vary from Kenny getting taken in by a whirlpool to a church being bombed.
The way that the author of this book left you in suspense at the end of a chapter which makes you want to it read even more.I think that this book was worth the while to read it and was very good.Another thing that made the book so good was that the author mixed in all the different kind of emotions. In the story he put things that would make you laugh, cry, wonder, and even relate to your own life. If I could read this book over and over I would and I'm sure you would to.
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Summary: An Awsome Book!!!!!
Review: This book was very interesting. it was about a family who went through many problems in their time.As a normal family,they had a mom,dad,a sister named Joetta,and younger brother named Kenny,and an older brother named Byron.Thsi family has many problems like when Byron got his lips stuck to a car's rear view mirror because he was kissing his reflection. In addition,at the end of the book,when the family goes to Burmingham,to me, it was the most interesting part.Things that happen in Burmingham vary from getting caught in a whirlpool to having a church bombed.Although this book at times was sad,it was a very interesting yet,wonderful book.In my oppinoin,Christopher Paul Curtis is a very talented writer.
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Summary: If I may say so, this book is the best!
Review: The Watsons Go to Birmingham is a remarkable story of the Civil Rights movement with fictional characters. The Watsons (a.k.a.) "the Weird Watsons" are living in freezing cold Flint, Michigan. One summer, the family goes to the darkest location of the Civil Rights movement, Birmingham, Alabama. On the way,they encounter pretty strange things in Appalachia. They meet the dreaded Grandma Sands, who really isn't that mean. Kenny, the ten year old boy telling the story, has a horrific meeting with a whirlpool at Collier's Lake. Kenny's delinquent brother, Byron, starts acting like a nice person, and actually saves Kenny from the whirlpool. White terrorists bomb Kenny's little sister, Joey's church and many blacks were killed. Luckily, Joey was not one of them. The Watsons later go back to Flint and the memory of Joey's church still haunts Kenny. Byron consoles him,qnd the story ends on a happy note. To sum it up, the detailed and reallistic examples of the Civil Rights acts make the Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 one of the best books I've ever read.
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Summary: A Geat Book
Review: This book is funny. Byron cusses alot, Kenny and joey are nice and mature little kids. They go to Birmingham- DUH. They witness a terrible tradgety. READ IT NOW- IT IS A GOOD BOOK!!
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Summary: A Good Book
Review: This is a comical story about the Watson family. The Watsons lived in Flint, Michigan in 1963. The mother was originally from Birmingham, Alabama. She constantly tried to instill Southern values into her children. The eldest of the three Watson children seems to always disappoint his family. Towards the middle of the story the Watson's go to Birmingham to visit their grandmother. This trip ends up being a life changing experience for the entire family. Read it and find out why.
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Summary: Great audio recording--EXCELLENT BOOK!!
Review: I don't agree that LeVar Burton doesn't succeed at recreating a family from 1963. I listen to audiobooks with my daughter all the time, and both of us are always asking for this one again. First of all, it's funny--and for me, nostalgic. It's one of the best audio recordings of a children's book I've heard (except of course for Harry Potter, which sets a standard that can hardly be met elsewhere). The voices of each character suit the personality and character and vary with tone enough to make each one distinguishable by itself. The speed and pace of the reading, and its clarity is also excellent, and the speaker's timing helps to keep the story comprehensible even for a child with an auditory processing deficit. Naturally, the book is a masterpiece, so that makes it a lot easier to read well--but don't miss the recording of the book, it's part of the pleasure itself.
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Summary: 5th
Review: The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 is a rather interesting book. The author used great descriptions on what the characters are like and what they go through. On the other hand I also thought that the book was quite drawn out and intensely boring. Also, some parts i didnt understand with the dialect. In conclusion, I give The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963 3 stars.
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Summary: 5th
Review: The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 was an inspirational book that changed my view on the way a true book is written. The way Christopher paul Curtis was able to take the life and events of a 1960's african american family and make a book showed the work of a genius. It is not often I can read a book and observe such vivid words that make such a point. Then of course the scenes he used made me want to keep on reading and not stop till morning. Almost unknowingly as I read I was taught about the true life of a family being perdecuted for the color of their skin. Reading this book will inspire the way you look on life today in the United states the it did me. You will find that the three children and unusual parents quinch you reading hope of a book and take you to the next level. This book is a masterpiece!!!!!!!!!
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