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This book won the Newberry Honor award and the Coretta Scott King awards in 1996. It also later became a movie.

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The Watson's Car, called The Brown Bomber,  is what they used to travel from Michigan to Alabama. Before their big trip, Kenny's dad got it all fixed up and purchased a surprise for the family: TT AB-700 Ultra-Glide record player!

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Kenny (10 years old) is the main character and the narrator of the story. He is constantly getting bullied by kids at school and his older brother, Byron (By). Towards the end of the story, By sticks up for Kenny and doesn't let the boys bully him anymore. When Kenny and his family vacation in Birmingham, he disobeys his families orders to stay away from a certain side of the local pool due to a dangerous whirlpool. Kenny nearly drowns by it but By was there to pull him out and save him just in time.

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Joetta (Joey) is the youngest of the three Watson kids. She loves her siblings very much and will always tattle on them to her parents because she doesn't want to see any of them get hurt. She is very religious and attends church services regularly.

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In the story while the Watsons were visiting Grandma Sands, Joey was attending church services when there was a bombing at the same church. Kenny bravely went inside the church to see if his sister was okay directly after it happened. When Kenny goes inside his mind flashes back to his drowning incident which confuses him and leaves him in shock as he goes back to his grandmas house. Confused, he finds Joey safe inside (she had left the church just before the bombing) and his family not knowing he went inside the church in the first place. To avoid having to explain to little Joey about the event that occurred at the church the Watsons leave the next day back home to Flint.

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This book is based off of tragic events that occurred in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. In September there was a bombing at a Baptist church that killed four young girls who were attending services at the time.

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The Watsons travel from their home of Flint, Michigan to Birmingham, Alabama to visit their grandma and drop off Kenny's brother, Byron, to stay for the summer so that he can fix his trouble maker behavior.

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Byron (By) is the oldest of the three Watson kids. He is 14 years old and a bully at school as well as at home. He is a huge trouble maker and is constantly showing bad behavior. His parents decide in order to fix his behavior before it gets any worse they were going to make him stay with his grandma for the summer and possibly the next school year so he can straighten up his act.