New Kid 3-Book Box Set: A Graphic Novel Collection: New Kid, Class Act, School Trip

by Jerry Craft

From critically acclaimed  New York Times  bestselling author-illustrator Jerry Craft comes a new special box set that includes all three books in his award-winning collection of graphic novels. In New Kid , winner of the Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Kirkus Prize, you’ll meet twelve-year-old Jordan Banks as he starts seventh grade at the prestigious Riverdale Academy Day School—where diversity is low and expectations are high. In Class Act, Jordan’s friends Drew and Liam have their own struggles as they enter their eighth grade year. Can two kids who are really so different still be friends?  And the saga soars to new heights in School Trip , where Jordan, Drew, Liam, and the rest of their friends all feel like the “new kid” as they spend an entire week in Paris. Middle school is hard enough without being the new kid…

768 pages, Paperback

Published May 28, 2024

About the author

JERRY CRAFT is the New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the graphic novels New Kid and Class Act. New Kid is the only book in history to win the John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature (2020); the Kirkus Prize for Young Readers’ Literature (2019), and the Coretta Scott King Author Award for the most outstanding work by an African American writer (2020). Jerry was born in Harlem and grew up in the Washington Heights section of New York City.