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The Watsons Go To Birmingham- 1963:
Reviewed By: Wilson
Location: Toronto, ON
Rating: 5 out of 5
The novel "The Watsons Go To Birmingham ~ 1963", tells the story of a ten year old named Kenny Watson and his near death experience when he goes to Birmingham in 1963. His brother, Byron Watson has gotten into trouble the past year and he is driving his parents crazy. As a result, Byron is going to have to stay in Birmingham with Grandma Sands and the whole family is going with him. After a long 18 hour drive, the Watson's arrive in Birmingham and meet Grandma Sands. Then, Kenny goes swimming and gets nearly drowned by a creature that Byron made up to scare Kenny and his sister Joey, the Wool Pooh. He goes crazy and sees angels but then gets saved by Byron. Later, two men dropped a bomb on a church where Joey was going to Sunday school. Kenny goes into shock and runs into the church and sees the Wool Pooh again. Joey turns up to be safe, for she wasn't in the church at the time. They go home and Kenny feels ashamed that some kids in the church got killed.
Byron tells him that it is all right and Kenny stops thinking about it. He finds out the Wool Pooh is just his imagination but knows that the death of four little girls in the church bombing in Birmingham, 1963, was real.
Comments
Yo, I never heard of this book dawg!
Posted by: J-ROC | February 1, 2007 03:14 PM
Well J-rock, neither have I!
Posted by: Sasha | February 1, 2007 03:15 PM
i have its wierd ,yo,byron is called By and his mom almost burned his fingers on purpose plus they say that the reason the garbage trucks have big doors is to fit the southern frozen people in.also By gets his lips stuck to a mirror when it's winter time at the beginning of the book and there is a wierd person who becomes kenny's friend from down south named Rurus.
Posted by: tommn | February 1, 2007 10:19 PM
i love this book
Posted by: briauna | February 7, 2007 08:35 PM
this is a good book
Posted by: laura | February 12, 2007 09:06 PM
it is an interesting book. u should read it!
Posted by: ananomys | February 14, 2007 01:34 PM
i love this book!!
it is the best
Posted by: i dont know my name!!! | February 14, 2007 09:18 PM
this is thh best book ever
Posted by: cj | February 14, 2007 11:14 PM
this book is funny dawg
Posted by: bri | February 15, 2007 08:41 AM
yo this book is slap
Posted by: kadira | February 18, 2007 03:22 PM
THIS BOOK IS GREAT
Posted by: P | February 21, 2007 06:38 PM
i never heard of this book
Posted by: k-money | February 23, 2007 05:14 PM
this book is funny
Posted by: kevykev | February 23, 2007 05:16 PM
Personally I didn't like this book
Posted by: B B | February 26, 2007 05:13 PM
I LOVE THIS BOOK IT IS FUNNY AND SAD
BUT IT IS A GREAT BOOK AND HOPE YOU DO TO
Posted by: Kelsey | March 3, 2007 11:31 AM
it is a borring book.
Posted by: rashonda | March 9, 2007 11:26 AM
When you look at the cover it looks boring, but when you begin reading it you can't stop!
Posted by: alisha | May 13, 2007 02:25 PM
This is a really nice book i recommened u to read it, its moslty like a family book and its funny. I had to read it in class as a report and then a summaryi didnt like it at first but it was interested then but its good and funny u should read it im sure you will like it too.
Posted by: Marianyelis | May 14, 2007 02:18 PM
i luv this book it is so funny it is kind of like it real when u start reading more and more of it i like it alot i like the character Byron for some odd reason when i first looked at the book i thought what kind of book who would read this but then i like it alot so that tells u u acnt just look at a cover u have to read it then decide i bet if any one else reads it they will lik eit as much as i do plz read this book it is cool
Posted by: Ra | August 13, 2007 03:30 PM
This book is the most boring book I amost read. If you can't fall asleep at night you should definitly buy it.
Posted by: Twanisha | August 30, 2007 11:43 AM
i luv this book because it inspires me on how much the world has change from then to now cause i think that if i was living in that time frame i would of been killed thank god for letting that time frame end.
Posted by: ashley | September 14, 2007 02:12 PM
this is a cool book im in the middle of the book almost done! =D
Posted by: gustavo | October 7, 2007 04:22 PM
When i first saw this book i didn't think i would like it. But when i started reading it i got really into it. its a great book :)
Posted by: Tori | January 9, 2008 06:29 PM
I think this is an interesting book. I had to read it in my class. It was the first book we read about African Americans. The story takes place the same year my mother was born.
Posted by: Cameron | January 29, 2008 05:43 PM
i love this book because it is not boring and because it has alot of humar.
Posted by: malik | April 21, 2008 11:37 AM
Really boring...the Clockwork Orange was soo much better!
Posted by: pi...one and only | April 22, 2008 11:36 PM
this book rocks. everyone at my middle school loves it we couldn't have asked for a better book.
Posted by: Tyshaye | May 13, 2008 06:16 PM
what an AWWESOME book
Posted by: leia | August 20, 2008 08:12 PM
I have my teacher is reading it to us this past year she told me to look it up the four girls who got killed and that's so sad!She's probably going to be mad that I just found out Joey is going to be okay!Because we're suppose to gind out tommorow.
Posted by: tareasa | September 25, 2008 05:21 PM
i LUV this book it is the best! out of all the books my reading class has read this my favorite!
Posted by: matty | February 7, 2009 09:00 AM
omg i love this book only i never got to hear the ending and i have a booik report due tuesday and this is exactly what i needed!
Posted by: danielle | February 8, 2009 07:20 AM
read love enjoy because i did and this book
is funny
Posted by: no | March 12, 2009 11:07 PM
This book is quite good although i may not give it a 5, to me it feels more like a 4, but either way it is a good book.
Posted by: Mary Kate | August 29, 2009 09:52 AM
dis book is funny, sad, and most of all so humorous.is d best book .i can hardly stop reading it now
Posted by: find out | September 12, 2009 02:13 PM