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"No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."
- Booker T. Washington
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ZIN Product Number: 10253320
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover - LARGE PRINT BOOK,
Edition: LARGEPRINT
Publisher: Thorndike Press
ISBN: 0786227419
Release Date: Jan 10, 1997
Age Range: 9 to 12
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 4 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
"Fourth-grader Kenny Watson tells about his African American family inFlint, Michigan, in 1963. We get to know his strict, loving parents and his tough older brother {Byron}, who gets into so much trouble his parents decide to take him back 'home' to Birmingham, Alabama, where maybe his strong grandmother will teach him some sense." (Booklist) "Age ten and up." (N Y Times Book Rev)
| | | | From The Publisher
Enter the hilarious world of 10-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who's 13 and 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. They're heading South. They're going to Birmingham, Alabama, toward one of the darkest moments in America's history.
| | | | Annotation
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 4 Average Rating:
BOO!!!BOO!!!
-- A reviewer, i am an athlete, September 10, 2002
Also Recommended: none
awsome book
-- amanda, a ancient egypt expert, July 15, 2002
Also Recommended: Harry Potter, A Wrinkle in time
A great book about a family in transition
-- Judith Miller, a lover of children's literature!!, August 12, 2002
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What a great book!
-- Juliana, an 8th grade brooklynite., September 9, 2002
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