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Summary Of The Watsons Go To Birmingham
In the story The Watsons Go to Birmingham there is a family called the Watsons AKA Weird Watsons. People call them the Weird Watsons because they are always doing weird things. The Watson family is made up of five people Mom/ Wilona, Dad/ Daniel, Big Brother/ Byron, Little Brother/ Kenny, and Little Sister/Joetta.
Byron thinks he is all that, and bullies Kenny and Joetta and the rest of the school. He also disobeys his parents and one day went out and got his hair dyed.The bullying gets so bad that Mom and Dad decide to take Byron to Milonas strict mother to shapen him up.
The whole family is excited to go to Birmingham in their car AKA The Brown Bomber. So Dad goes out and buys all these things for the Brown Bomber like a record player so
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