The Watsons Go To Birmingham--1963
This is a book with many themes such as coming of age, society and morality. The narrator is a nine year old named Kenny Watsons. Kenny's family has to go south to Birmingham when Kenny's older brother gets in trouble. The family so happens to come into down when troubles of the civil rights movement was in full swing and their grandmothers church is in shambles Leveling system Lexile, reading level 920L. An activity a classroom can participate in is creating a time of the civil rights movement through the characters of the book.
