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The Watsons Go To Birmingham-1963 Book Report

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I thought The Watsons go to Birmingham-1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis was an outstanding book. It was very slow at first, just getting to know the characters. Even though it was slow, it really helped add to the emotion of the book. It showed how close they were as a family and what they were willing to do for eachother. However, it got exciting when Byron started getting in trouble. He had one chance left, and then he dyed his hair. That was the last straw, after that the mom and dad started acting weird. After a while, they started planning things; they had been planning to take Byron to live with Grandma Sands. They all got loaded up and were headed to Alabama. It was just family time at Grandma Sands, until Joetta went to Sunday school;

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