num_pages: 5
description: Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, Kenny, and Byron, Kenny's older brother, who, at thirteen, is an "official juvenile delinquent." When Momma and Dad decide it's time for a visit to Grandma, Dad comes home with the amazing Ultra-Glide, and the Watsons set out on a trip like no other. Heading South, they're going to Birmingham, Alabama, and toward one of the darkest moments in America's history.  By turns comic, tragic, and touching, this remarkable Newbery Honor work, delightfully performed by LeVar Burton in this unabridged production, will delight listeners young and old as they meet Christopher Paul Curtis, a storyteller of bold ambition and a true and original voice and his inimitable Watsons.
language: English
title: The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
titlecomplete: The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963
genres: Classics, Historical, Childrens, African American, Young Adult, Middle Grade, Family, School, Historical Fiction, Fiction
ratings_count: 66641
places: Birmingham, Alabama, Flint, Michigan
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Newbery Medal, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Jane Addams Children's Book Award
category: Older Children, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Vermont Golden Dome Book Award, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Coretta Scott King Book Award
category: Author Honor, awardedAt: 946713600000
name: New Mexico Land of Enchantment Award
category: Young Adult, awardedAt: 883641600000
name: California Young Readers Medal
category: Middle School/Junior High, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Best Children's Books of the Year (Bank Street College of Education)
publisher: Listening Library (Audio)