Christopher Paul Curtis

The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963

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Produktbeschreibung

This Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Award winner is now a Hallmark Channel Original Movie. When Kenny Watson's brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble, the family travels from Michigan to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they happen to be in Birmingham when Grandma's church is blown up.

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Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about an unforgettable family on a road-trip during one of the most important times in the civil rights movement. When the Watson family-ten-year-old Kenny, Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron-sets out on a trip south to visit Grandma in Birmingham, Alabama, they don't realize that they're heading toward one of the darkest moments in America's history. The Watsons' journey reminds us that even in the hardest times, laughter and family can help us get through anything. "A modern classic." -NPR "Marvelous . . . both comic and deeply moving." -The New York Times "One of the best novels EVER." -Jacqueline Woodson, Newbery Honor and National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 193mm x 131mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 182g
• ISBN-13: 9780385382946
• ISBN-10: 0385382944
• Artikelnr.: 38076690

Autorenporträt

CHRISTOPHER PAUL CURTIS is the recipient of the Coretta Scott King–Virginia Hamilton Award for Lifetime Achievement. He won the Newbery Medal and the Coretta Scott King Award for his bestselling second novel, Bud, Not Buddy. His first novel, The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963, was also singled out for many awards, among them a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor, and has been made into a Hallmark Channel Original Movie.   Curtis grew up in Flint, Michigan. After high school he began working on the assembly line at the Fisher Body Plant No. 1 while attending the Flint branch of the University of Michigan. He is now a full-time writer. He lives with his family in Windsor, Ontario.