New Kid Book Jerry Craft Characters

Perfect for fans of raina telgemeier and gene luen yang new kid is a timely honest graphic novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real from award winning author illustrator jerry craft.

New kid book jerry craft characters. Perfect for fans of raina telgemeier and gene luen yang new kid is a timely honest novel about starting over at a new school where diversity is low and the struggle to fit in is real from award winning author illustrator jerry craft. New kid is a 2019 graphic novel by jerry craft the novel tells the story of jordan banks who experiences culture shock when he enrolls at a private school. Taking place over jordan s freshman year at a prestigious private school he has to adjust to a new school experiences and witnesses microaggressions and makes friends with other students.

2020 john newbery medal awards. Seventh grader jordan banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. April read new kid.

Feb 06 2020 05 58am mock newbery 2021. New kid by jerry craft poll ballot 1 5. Jerry craft is an author and illustrator who has worked on numerous picture books graphic novels and middle grade novels including the zero degree zombie zone by patrik henry bass.

Jerry is the creator of mama s boyz an award winning syndicated comic strip he has won five african american literary awards and he is a co founder of the schomburg center s annual black comic book. The first novel in jerry craft s new kid series new kid 2019 a graphic novel for middle schoolers centers on a talented african american boy who loves art but rather than sending him to art school his parents make him attend a privileged day school where he struggles to fit in with his mostly white classmates in 2019 new kid won the kirkus prize and in 2020 both the newbery medal.