My Lists
Featured Lists
Gold dust
By Lynch, Chris
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06028-175-5
- Publisher
- New York : HarperCollins, c2000.
REVIEWS
School Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2000
Gr 5-8 This novel contains some of the best sports writing readers will ever find in a YA novel. Seventh-grader Richard Moncrief, a working-class baseball fanatic, befriends an unusual transfer student. Napoleon Charlie Ellis is from Dominica, plays cricket, speaks grammatically perfect English, and is one of the few black students at their Catholic school in Boston during the 1975 school busing controversy. Richard's dream is for the "Gold...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
