The Watsons Go to Birmingham

The Watsons didn’t know what trouble lay ahead; they were merely on the road to Grandma’s house. The Watsons Go to Birmingham places a fictitious family from Michigan in the middle of the Civil Rights Movement when the Ku Klux Klan bombs an African-American church in 1963. 

This realistic fiction for children celebrates family and laughter in the face of cruel adversity. The author’s endnote further discusses the Civil Rights Movement and the importance of “ordinary heroes.”