Scholastic Bookfiles [Paperback]

Amy Griffin (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 9 and up | Series: Scholastic Bookfiles

This reading companion is perfect for students, parents, and teachers who have enjoyed and want to know more about Christopher Paul Curtis's award-winning novel, The Watsons Go To Birmingham--1963.

The Watsons Go To Birmingham by Christopher Paul Curtis is a favorite middle-grade novel. This companion gives backgound on the author, including an interview, questions to guide reading, clues to the story's themes, plot, characters, and setting, a glossary, writing and other activities, and more. If you loved The Watsons, you need this reading companion.

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About the Author

Christopher Paul Curtis was born in Flint, Michigan. After high school graduation, he worked on the assembly line of the Fisher Body Plant for 13 years, until Christopher took a year off work to write his first novel. The Watsons Go to Birmingham - 1963 won a Newbery Honor and a Coretta Scott King Honor book citation in 1996. Bud, Not Buddy received the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award in 2000. His most recent book, Elijah of Buxton, has garnered multiple awards, including a Newbery Honor, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction, the TD Children’s Literature Book Award and the CLA Book of the Year, and was a finalist in the Governor General's Literary Award for Children's Literature. "This novel came to me in a way that was far different than any other," says Curtis. "From the word 'go' Elijah and I became close friends. When I'd go to the library to write, it was as if he were anxiously waiting for me, waiting to tell about his life, his worries, his adventures."

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9 and up
  
• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Reference (March 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439298024
• ISBN-13: 978-0439298025
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 5.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,436,099 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Guide, February 29, 2004

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Linde Crawford (Morgantown, WV United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scholastic Bookfiles (Paperback)

A wonderful extension for a wonderful book. This book meets all the present-day standards for education and is cross-curricular in nature. This is not the typical "book report" format found in so many other companion workbooks. Activities range from paper-pencil, to roleplaying, to technology, to current and past newspaper events and on and on. I've examined many such workbooks and this is one of the best I've ever seen. Amy Griffin has done a thorough job here.