Armstrong & Charlie

"During the pilot year of a Los Angeles school system integration program, two sixth grade boys, one black, one white, become best friends as they learn to cope with everything from first crushes and playground politics to the loss of loved ones and racial prejudice in the 1970s"--

Main Author: Frank, Steven, 1963- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2017]
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Summary: "During the pilot year of a Los Angeles school system integration program, two sixth grade boys, one black, one white, become best friends as they learn to cope with everything from first crushes and playground politics to the loss of loved ones and racial prejudice in the 1970s"--
Physical Description: 298 pages ; 22 cm
Audience: Young Adult.
Awards: Junior Library Guild selection.
ISBN: 9780544826083
0544826086
Author Notes: Steven B. Frank is the author of The Pen Commandments: A Guide for the Beginning Writer. He teaches middle school at Le Lycee Français de Los Angeles and lives in Laurel Canyon, California. Armstrong and Charlie was inspired by his own sixth grade year at Wonderland Avenue Elementary.