Class Act (New Kid #2)
Jerry Craft
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
4.25
· 20 ratings · 256 pages · Published: 06 Oct 2020
Eighth grader Drew Ellis is no stranger to the saying “You have to work twice as hard to be just as good.” His grandmother has reminded him his entire life. But what if he works ten times as hard and still isn’t afforded the same opportunities that his privileged classmates at the Riverdale Academy Day School take for granted?
To make matters worse, Drew begins to feel as if his good friend Liam might be one of those privileged kids. He wants to pretend like everything is fine, but it's hard not to withdraw, and even their mutual friend Jordan doesn't know how to keep the group together.
As the pressures mount, will Drew find a way to bridge the divide so he and his friends can truly accept each other? And most important, will he finally be able to accept himself?
Tagged as:
- realistic 3
- contemporary 3
- friendship 3
- children 2
- family 2
- funny 2
- protagonists of colour 2
- coming of age 2
- social commentary 2
- bullying 1
- city/urban 1
- sports 1
- drama 1
- bildungsroman 1
- black mc 1
- male mc 1
- Add topics
- format - reader age
- comic 3
- middle grade 3
- young adult 3
- audiobook 2
- content warnings
- racism 2
romance tags
crime tags
literary-fiction tags
historical-fiction tags
fantasy tags
sci-fi tags
action-adventure tags
thriller tags
horror tags
Collections/Custom tags
The 'New Kid' series
4.21 · 66 ratings
realistic · male-mc · children · comics · humor · fiction · poc-mc · friendship · family · bullying · audiobook · contemporary · middle-grade · coming-of-age · racism · young-adult · black-mc · high-school · children-books · urban
New Kid reading order and complete book list ❯