Hallmark Channel made a movie from the book The Watsons Go To Birmingham 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis. This is a good meaningful book, full of great language and vocabulary and a great story featuring the events of the time. Kids love the humor between family members as well as the storyline.  There is so much you can tie into this book!  It has a great opening paragraph & chapter that really hooks readers.

http://www.walden.com/the-watsons-go-to-birmingham/#.UiZBirx6PMl

Here is a link to the Scholastic Book page with an video about the author.

The Watsons Go to Birmingham Scholastic page