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Armstrong & Charlie

by Steven B. Frank

Ages: 12+

Published: 2017

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

ISBN: 978-0-544-82608-3

Keywords: Bullies, Diversity, Integration

When ten African-American sixth-graders are bussed to a white school in a desegregation experiment in 1970's LA, challenges and friendship ensue.