"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"-- In 1970s Los Angeles, Charlie and Armstrong, who are Caucasian and African American respectively, forge a friendship under trying circumstances after Armstrong enrolls at a white school as part of an integration program. Provided by publisher.