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Essential Read

New Kid

by Jerry Craft · 2019

Literary Fiction · ranked #238 in category

Winner · The Newbery Medal, 2020

Jordan Banks, a Black seventh-grader who would rather draw cartoons than attend a prestigious mostly-white private school, navigates the daily friction of being one of the few kids of colour in his class. Craft's graphic novel won the Newbery Medal — the first graphic novel to do so — for its honest, funny depiction of code-switching and microaggressions.

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The verdict

Category
Literary Fiction
First published
2019 · 2010s
Author
Jerry Craft
Standing
Essential Read

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