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Book Description
A wonderful middle-grade novel narrated by Kenny, 9, about his middle-class black family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. When Kenny's 13-year-old brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble, they head South 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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3 stars 2 stars 1 star - Mass Market Paperback 224 Pages
- ISBN-10: 044022800X
- ISBN-13: 9780440228004
- Publisher: Laurel Leaf
- Pub date: Dec 12, 2000
- Dimensions: 18 cm x 11 cm x 2 cm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding and Unbound
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Kelly 
Paige
YA Librarian
This book came highly recommended to me by a middle school teacher friend. The author makes the Watson family come vividly alive while also touching (lightly) on the racial unrest of the period. Expect to be transported right back to the 1960s when you read this book.