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  1. Christopher Paul Curtis _ The Watsons Go to Birmingham -

    She always blamed him for bringing her all the way from Alabama to Michigan, a state she called
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  2. Christopher Paul Curtis _ The Madman of Piney Woods

    When I left her office, I felt like she'd gut-punched me, brushed me off, slapped me back and forth, gave me a cool compress to put on my cheeks, cold-cocked me with a stiff uppercut to the jaw, picked me up, brushed me off again, then kicked me in the seat of my pants as she handed me a piece of cake and showed me the door.Being a reporter isn't as easy as it looks.
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  3. Christopher Paul Curtis _ The Watsons Go to Birmingham -

    My dinosaurs weren't even in their graves for three hours before someone rolled their rocks away. Maybe it was a lot easier for a bunch of angels to get a million dinosaurs to heaven than it was to get the saver of the whole world there, but I wished they'd given me a couple more hours."
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  4. Christopher Paul Curtis _ The Watsons Go to

    went off during Sunday school. Addie Mae Collins's sister, Sarah, had to have an eye removed, and another girl was blinded. In the unrest that followed the bombing, two other African American children died. Sixteen-year-old Johnny Robinson was shot to death by police, and thirteen-year-old Virgil Wade was murdered by two white boys. Although these may be nothing more than names in a book to you now, you must remember that these children were just as precious to their families as Joetta was to the Watsons or as your brothers and sisters are to you.
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