A wonderful middle-grade novel narrated by Kenny, 9, about
his middle-class black family, the Weird Watsons of Flint,
Michigan. When Kenny's 13-year-old brother, Byron, gets to
be too much trouble, they head South to Birmingham to visit
Grandma, the one person who can shape him up. And they
happen to be in Birmingham when Grandma's church is
blown up.
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