The Watsons Go to Birmingham--1963 (by Christopher Paul Curtis)

The Watsons Go To Birmingham This story takes you on an adventure, you could be eleven or eighty and you would still fall in love with this book. Me, myself has read this book more than five times. Don’t judge a book by its cover! It may be thick and have little letters but you’ll breeze through this book like nothing. Let me give you the character traits; Byron is the tough macho cool misbehaved one of the family; he’s also the oldest. Kenny, on the other hand is the middle child; he keeps to himself but speaks out when he needs to. Joetta is the little baby of the family; she’s very kind and doesn’t like to hurt anyone in anyway. She goes to church every single Sunday and won’t miss it for anything in the world. When her parents yell at Byron for doing something bad and want to spank him she just won’t allow it. She is very religious. Your probably wondering why they called this book the Watsons go to Birmingham… right! They called it that because Byron does something so bad that they just can’t take him anymore and make him to his grandma sands house for the summer. They said that if he didn’t improve in his behavior by the end of the summer, he was going to stay there for the whole school year. Byron thought that they were kidding but they weren’t. Mrs. Watson had already planned this because she knew that one day this was going to happen. She had what kind of sandwich everyone was going to eat each day and how many. When they were going to stop for gas. When they were going to stop and sleep in the car. Don’t think that it’s just a book describing a car ride. Get ready for some comedy; although I wouldn’t recommend this to anyone smaller that eleven. This book may toss around a few cause words but not that many; not that much to get worried about. So I would definitely recommend this book to anyone eleven and older. By: Alicia Rubio