The Watsons Go to Birmingham, by Christopher Paul Curtis, ISBN # 0-590-69014-0 tis

The Watsons go to Birmingham is a Newberry Honor Book as well as the winner of the Coreta Scott King Award, Narrator Kenny, tells of the Watson family trip to Birmingham in 1963, the year of the church bombing. Curtis switches beautifully between fun and serious in this great book of family love and endurance.