Armstrong and Charlie

During the pilot year of a Los Angeles school system integration program, Armstrong and Charlie learn to cope with everything from first crushes and playground politics to the loss of loved ones and racial prejudice in the 1970s.

Charlie isn't looking forward to sixth grade. If he starts sixth grade, chances are he'll finish it, and he'll be older than his older brother ever was.

Armstrong isn't looking forward to sixth grade either. He'll have to wake up at five-thirty to ride a bus to an all-white school in the Hollywood Hills. When they are assigned seats next to each other, what starts as a rivalry becomes a close friendship.

Set in Los Angeles in the 1970s, Armstrong and Charlie is the funny and heartwarming tale of two boys. Different, yet the same.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Clarion Books
Published: 03/07/2017
ISBN: 9780544826083
Pages: 304
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.30d

Review Citations: Booklist 01/01/2017 pg. 90
Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2017 pg. 133
BookPage 03/01/2017
School Library Journal 03/01/2017 pg. 125
Shelf Awareness 03/21/2017
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 04/01/2017
Horn Book Magazine 09/01/2017 pg. 93
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2018 - Superior,Well Above Average

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 187751 / Armstrong & Charlie
Reading Level: 4.1 / Interest Level: Middle Grade / Point Value: 8