This Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Award winner is now a Hallmark Channel Original Movie. --Jacqueline Woodson, Newbery Honor and National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming. -- The New York Times One of the best novels EVER. both comic and deeply moving . . . --NPR Marvelous .
A modern classic.
The Watsons\' journey reminds us that even in the hardest times, laughter and family can help us get through anything.
When the Watson family--ten-year-old Kenny, Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron--sets out on a trip south to visit Grandma in Birmingham, Alabama, they don\'t realize that they\'re heading toward one of the darkest moments in America\'s history.
Celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Newbery and Coretta Scott King Honoree about an unforgettable family on a road-trip during one of the most important times in the civil rights movement.
And they happen to be in Birmingham when Grandma\'s church is blown up.
When Kenny Watson\'s brother, Byron, gets to be too much trouble, the family travels from Michigan to Birmingham to visit Grandma, the one person who can shape him up.
This Newbery Honor Book and Coretta Scott King Award winner is now a Hallmark Channel Original Movie
