One Book, One San Joaquin 2005
A Countywide Reading Program
The Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963
by Christopher Paul Curtis
![Watsons Go to Birmingham-1963 [cover art used by permission, see credits]](/images/cover_Watsons.jpg)
Enter the hilarious world of ten-year-old Kenny and his family, the Weird Watsons of Flint, Michigan. There's Momma, Dad, little sister Joetta, and brother Byron, who's thirteen and an "official juvenile delinquent." When Momma and Dad decide it's time for a visit to Grandma, Dad comes home with the amazing Ultra-Glide, and the Watsons set out on a trip like no other. They're heading South. They're going to Birmingham, Alabama, toward one of the darkest moments in America's history.
Author Christopher Paul Curtis will make an appearance at a book signing Monday, May 23 at 7:00PM at the Stockton Civic Auditorium
Book Discussions: At most Branch Libraries, see schedule.
More info: 209-937-8221 ; from San Joaquin County, outside Stockton: 866-805-READ (7323)
Intended audience: Children and adults; families are encouraged to attend
Note: The One Book, One San Joaquin Committee strongly encourages families to read this book together.
This program is supported in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.
One Book, One San Joaquin is a community-wide reading project, patterned after similar projects introduced across the United States. These types of projects were initiated in 1998 by the Washington Center for the Book, at the Library of Congress. Past One Book programs in San Joaquin County include Epitaph for a Peach by David Mas Masumoto (2004), Tortilla Curtain by T.C. Boyle (2003), and in Stockton, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (2002), and in Lodi, Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston (2002).
Photo Credits: Cover art used by permission of the publisher, Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books. Photo of author used by permission.