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A Reading Guide to the Watson's Go to Birmingham - 1963

A Reading Guide to the Watson's Go to Birmingham - 1963( )
Author: Griffin, Amy
Curtis, Christopher Paul
Series title:Scholastic Bookfiles Ser.
ISBN:978-0-439-29802-5
Publication Date:Mar 2004
Publisher:Scholastic, Incorporated
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $4.99
Book Description:

The Watsons Go To Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis is a favorite middle-grade novel. This companion gives backgound on the author, including an interview, questions to guide reading, clues to the story's themes, plot, characters, and setting, a glossary, writing and other activities, and more. If you loved The Watsons, you need this reading companion.

Book Details
Pages:64
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Nonfiction / Activism & Social Justice
Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Topics / Civil & Human Rights
Juvenile Nonfiction / Literary Criticism & Collections
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.17 x 8.15 x 0.19 Inches
Book Weight:0.2 Pounds
Author Biography
Griffin, Amy (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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