New Kid By Jerry Craft Book Cover

The move to middle school confuses many students and has inspired many comics but this funny and heartfelt graphic novel covers new territory.

New kid by jerry craft book cover. Seventh grader jordan banks loves nothing more than drawing cartoons about his life. 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. It was great not to be the only black kid in class but after being fooled by the chauffeur.

Jerry craft is the winner of the newbery medal for his graphic novel new kid he has worked on numerous picture books graphic novels and middle grade novels. Aalbc will be the first to reveal class act s cover on february 7 2020 at noon. Jerry craft is the winner of the newbery medal for his graphic novel new kid.

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. His middle grade graphic novel new kid will be released by harpercollins on february 5 2019. 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 cofounder of the schomburg center s annual black comic book festival.

Favourite sentence from page 11. I had heard on a podcast that craft uses inventive graphic novel devices to tell a story about middle schooler jordan banks transferring to a prestigious private school where he is one of the few students of color. Last year i picked up jerry craft s new kid from the library.

Harper audio productions harper collins. Jerry craft has illustrated and or written nearly three dozen children s books graphic novels and middle grade novels for publishers such as harpercollins scholastic benchmark pearson and his own publishing company mama s boyz inc. Craft mentions that the story was influenced by his own experiences growing up.

Use this page to discover other books which are in the same category as new kid fiction hardcover by jerry craft harpercollins feb 05 2019. Class act the follow up to new kid will be published in october. 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.