Curtis, C.P. (1995). The Watsons go to Birmingham–1963. New York: Delacorte Press.
The Watsons Go To Birmingham, like many other historical fiction novels, is a Coretta Scott King award and Newberry Honor book and fits the genre so thoroughly through its characters, plot, theme, setting, and style. As the Watsons take their family to Alabama in an effort to curb their oldest child's errant ways, the characters are revealed and in doing so, so are multiple themes. Bullying, family conflict, and racism lead the way in the plot and make this novel applicable in many ways to today's times.
Evaluation criteria: Historical fiction
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