The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

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Summary: Great audiotapes for a road trip
Review: Reviewing this as a parent, this was a good story. Levar Burton does an excellent job narrating. The story was humorous, and yet, sad in places. There are a lot of morals that come in to play--also, a lot of consequences for choices and actions one makes. There are many situations for the listener to think about and make for family discussions about rights,wrongs and social injustices. The only objection I had to the tapes was the use of profanity by Byron Watson. Even so, I explained to my 12-year old that Byron was, afterall, a "juvenille delinquent." One definitely can develop empathy for the characters in this story and relate to some of their situations.

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Summary: The Watson's Trials and Trubulations
Review: It all starts when Byron decides to keep burning those matches. That is when Mamma and Daddy decide they would take their juvenile delinquent to see Grandma Sands down in Birmingham Alabama. This book tells the trials and tribulations that the Watsons deal with on their trip down south. This book was set in the early 60's. That is a time period where racicm was quite common down south. Kenneth and his family take many risks including driving through the night trying to get to Birmingham instead of stopping. Some other examples are how Kenneth almost gets sucked into a "Wool Pooh" and how Joey almost dies in a fire. All in all I enjoyed this book very much and will read it again. I suggest this book to to anyone who wants to read a book balanced with comedy and history.

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Summary: This book is great and full of suprises!!!!
Review: "The Watson's Go to Birmingham-1963" by Cristopher Paul Curtis, was a great and suspenceful book about a family nicknamed "the Weird Watsons and the problems they have. Besides having a juvenile delinquent as an oldest son (Byron), the parents Daniel and Wilona, have another son (Kenny) that gets repeatedly beat-up by his brother has one eye that sits in the corner by his nose and one friend Rufus. As for thier youngest Joetta (Joey) the tattletale, she's a goody goody, that hates to see her brothers hurt or in trouble. Soon enough the Weird Watsons depart, for the ever threatening 850 mile trip from Flint, Michigan to Birmingham, Alabama, in the Brown Bomber. While they are there; Wilona, (the mom), chatches up on town gossip, Byron gets straintened out, Joey unknowingly wittnesses a crime, Daniel, (the dad), just has fun, and Kenny gets reapetedly visted by the "Wool Pooh"!!

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Summary: It's a great, great, great book.
Review: The Watsons go to Birmingham- 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis is the best book I've ever read in the whole world. The book has two awards, and if I had to grade it, I would give it 100 awards. This book's very sad at the end. The book is funny, sad, a little bit scary, and I will say it agian, it is great.

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Summary: Wonderful!!!!
Review: It was one of the best books I've read. The book is about a family that has two sons, Byron and Kenny, and one daughter, Joetta. The main character is Kenny, he has lots of adventures, somme happy, some sad. From the Ultra-Glide to the 16 Street Church it is a great book all around

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Summary: The Watsons go to Birmingham- 1963 was a pretty good book.
Review: It mixes subjects well, it includes reading and language arts, history, and social studies. I recommend this book. It includes fiction and nonfiction information including the 1963 Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing. It also includes some humor. Kenny, the main character, has a troublemaking brother. They go to visit their grandmother and trouble awaits them.

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Summary: I give the Watsons 5 stars.
Review: The Watsons go to Birmingham is a book aobut the Watson family. They set out on a long ride to Birmingham, Alabama. They are going to leave their fourteen year old son there to learn his lesson. But when they get there, one of the darkest moments in American history is about to happen.

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Summary: Great book
Review: I think The Watsons Go To Birmingham- 1963 was a good book. It's a hilarious story about a family that goes to Birmingham, Alabama to visit grandma Sands, and finds a surprise and leave early. I recommend this book for older kids.

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Summary: an okay book
Review: I think this book is an okay book. It is definitely not on the top of my favorite book list, to tell you the truth, it would go more towards the middle. If it is going to be a kid's book they should not put so many bad words in it. What I liked about it was that it had a little bit of everything in it, humor, sadness, and even some scary things happen in the book.

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Summary: A great book
Review: The Watsons go to Birmingham- 1963 is a really good book. It is a mixture of comedy and tragedy, but sure to brighten your day. The Watsons are a loving family in the 60's when there was discrimination against different colors. Join Kenny, Byron, Joetta. and the rest in their "fantastic" adventures.