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This is a book that I read in 5th grade. I would recommend to 4th or 5th grade. This book is about a dog and a policeman passes away in a bomb accident and the dog but so the doctors come up with an idea they sewed the dogs head to the policeman’s body.

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This is #3 of The Percy Jackson books. This is a book that revolves around the 1st and 2nd books. The first one is about a kid who gets send to a Demigod camp. Percy is actually the son of Poseidon. But he is unaware of that throughout the book he travels the world to find his dad and also meets other demigods along the way. Percy half way through the 1st book he discovers that he can control and talk to the water just like his dad/Poseidon.

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Dog Man is a comedic graphic novel series by American cartoonist Dav Pilkey (author of the Captain Underpants books) published by Scholastic Corporation that focuses on a part-dog, part-man police officer. The book series includes nine books, the first released in 2016 and the latest in 2020. The latest book released in September 2020, making for a total of 10 books in the series. The books are very popular in Australia and America. There is one upcoming book in the series, named Dog Man: Mothering Heights. It will come out on March 23, 2021.

Graphic novels

Dog Man is the eponymous first book in the series, released on August 30, 2016. Unlike other books by Dav Pilkey, it contains four separate stories instead of one whole story. 1 is A Hero is Unleashed, 2 is the Robo Chief, 3 is a remaster of Book 'em' Dog Man, and 4 is Weenie Wars: The Franks Awaken.

The behind the scenes foreword is a recap of the entire Captain Underpants series, from when George and Harold first met to their creation of Captain Underpants and the misadventures that follow, leading up to the point where everything is back to normal. George and Harold wake up to find that their doubles from the slight future, along with Tony, Orlando, and Dawn, are gone. They search in their tree house, but find some of their old Dog Man comics and have a good laugh. Harold feels that he and George should make another Captain Underpants comic book, but George decides that he and Harold should scrap the Captain Underpants comics and do a comic book featuring Dog Man instead, hence this book.

One day, a cop named Officer Knight and his police dog Greg got seriously injured in an explosion by a bomb assembled by Petey, The body of the dog became unable to function, along with Knight's head. So the doctors did surgery to Greg and put his head into Knight's body, causing him to turn into Dog Man. He caught the Mayor, but forgot Dr. Scrum, the real mastermind. He was missing til the 7th book, For Whom The Ball Rolls. He remastered "Book 'em' Dog Man, and defeated the hotdogs and Philly the evil taco, but broke Chief's new couch.

Dog Man: Unleashed is the second book in the series, released on January 3, 2017. It revolves around Dog Man and a battle with Flat Petey and dead/alive Flippy, a psychokinetic butterfly fish.

Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties is the third book in the series, released on August 29, 2017. It revolves around Dog Man dealing with Petey's clone(son), Lil' Petey, and Supa Mecha-Flippy. Flippy got squished by Dog Man, then, at the Supa Awesome Science Center Over There, whose broken bones became replaced by bionics, and then got brought back to live with Living Spray gas.

Dog Man and Cat Kid is the fourth book in the series, released on December 26, 2017. It revolves around Dog Man and Li'l Petey becoming super-heroes. Dog Man is the Bark Knight (referencing to Batman), and Lil' Petey as Cat Kid.

Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas is the fifth book in the series, released on August 28, 2018. It revolves around Dog Man and his new SUPA BUDDIES superhero team facing Piggy the evil pig, Crunky the dim-witted gorilla, and Bub the silly dwarf crocodile, known as the FLEAS: the Fuzzy Little Evil Animal Squad.

Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild is the sixth book in the series, released on December 24, 2018. It revolves around Dog Man being framed by the Fleas. It was released with positive reviews.

Dog Man: For Whom the Ball Rolls is the seventh book in the series, released on August 13, 2019. It revolves around Dog Man's former obsession, balls, becoming his greatest fear, Dr. Scum behind this, and Petey reuniting with his father, who's still evil. It releases followed by positive reviews.

Dog Man: Fetch-22 is the eighth book in the series, released on December 10, 2019. It revolves around Dog Man facing the Fair Fairy, their tree, Barky McTreeface, & 22 supa-angry psychokinetic tadpoles (the Fair Fairy's children who controlled Barky with their minds), not to mention Li'l Petey's greedy grampa.

Dog Man: Grime and Punishment is the ninth and most recent book in the series, released on September 1, 2020. It revolves around Dog Man getting fired from the mayor for digging up his roses and ripping his hat and having to go undercover as Cat Man then get his job back.

The tenth book in the Dog Man series is Mothering Heights which will be released on March 23, 2021, due to COVID-19, and the release of Dav Pilkey's new book, Cat Kid Comic Club. Not much is known yet except that during a Dav Pilkey video, he said that Piggy would return. Previous book was Dog Man: Grime And Punishment

Characters

Dog Man - The remains of Greg and Officer Knight after an explosion leaves them without any functioning body parts. He retains his dog senses, but not his body, He has a tendency to jump onto Chief or make a huge mess. Dog man cannot speak in English. In "Dog Man and Cat Kid," "Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas," "Dog Man: Brawl of the Wild," "Dog Man: For whom the Ball Rolls," and "Dog Man: Fetch-22," he assumes the superhero moniker "The Bark Knight," which is a play on words of Batman's nickname "The Dark Knight." He also has a habit of rolling on dead fish.

Officer Knight - A former cop who was seriously injured from a bomb explosion. He ends up dying to make Dog Man. His head just dies and then they use his body to make Dog Man.

Greg - The dog buddy of Knight who dies so they could make Dog Man. Greg's body was dead and they used his head to make Dog Man.

Petey - The former main antagonist of the series. He was an evil cat that tried to take over the world but ended up failing every time. He becomes a Good Guy after released from Cat Jail, and raising his clone, Lil Petey, but still "hates" Dog Man.

Flat Petey - The paper version of Petey, who is the main villain of book 2. He ends up getting cut up by a magic witch doctor that he controls(Or so we thought)...

Lil' Petey - The clone of Petey, created when Petey inserted a DNA sample to make a doppelganger of himself for a butler. He is one of 7 protagonists.

Grampa - The Greedy father of Petey. One of the antagonists of the series. In For Whom The Ball Rolls, he was first introduced into the series when Lil' Petey tracks him down after Petey talks about how his father abandoned him. He insults Petey and steals all of Petey's stuff after the group fights Dr. Scum. He was then arrested for stealing. He makes another appearance in Fetch-22 where he puts both Petey and Lil' Petey to sleep when they visited via sleeping gas. He disguises himself as Petey and takes Lil' Petey. He then teams with the Fair Fairy but gets arrested. He is the main antagonist in Grime and Punishment, where (using his invention: The Mighty Motor Brain) he turns into a amplified version of himself, the incorrigible Crud.

Zuzu - A poodle owned by Sarah Hatoff, World's Greatest Reporter, who forms an alliance of Dog Man.

Sarah Hatoff - A reporter who helps Dog Man save the world. She bears a resemblance to Savannah Guthrie. In "Dog Man and Cat kid" she assumes the superhero moniker "Purse Lady."

Chief - The chief of the local police station, who is a protagonist, but is described as grumpy. He dislikes it when Dog Man jumps on him. In "Dog Man and Cat kid he assumes the superhero moniker "Chief Man." For an unknown reason, Chief's real name is Chief.

80-HD - A robot built by Petey, which is then used by Lil' Petey as a friend. 80-HD shares his name with a character in Star Wars called 80-HD and named after what kids suffer as to ADHD. So also, his name is a homonym of ADHD, the disorder Dav Pilkey suffered from as a child. 80-HD's full name given by Petey is 80 Hegxagon-Droidformigon.

Big Jim - A former fellow cellmate of Petey's that turns into a hero named Commander Cupcake but never does any real work. He is obese compared to other cats. In Dog Man #9, he puts on Grampa's Mighty Motor Brain helmet which makes him muscular but still obese. In this form, he calls himself the insuppresible Snug.

Yolay Caprese - An actress who assists the team. She appears in books 4 and 6. She bears a resemblance to Naomi Watts.

Fair Fairy - Main antagonist of Dog Man: Fetch-22, a short elderly fairy who tries to help children share fair nicely in her eponymous TV show until she was fired due to her rude temper of "YOU GET NOTHING! YOU GET NOTHING! NOW IT'S FAIR!!!" Since then, she became vengeful, evil, and bitter.

Piggy - A villain who shares a past with Petey and who is the sole leader of the FLEAS, an acronym for the Fuzzy Little Evil Animal Squad. But disappeared in "Dog Man: Fetch 22". Dav Pilkey said that he will come back in " Dog Man: Mothering Heights"

Crunky - One of Piggy's two henchmen. He is an anthropomorphic gorilla and a childhood friend of Petey's. He was an animal who was with Petey in the Critter Scouts. But disappeared in Dog Man Fetch-22.

Bub - Another one of Piggy's two henchmen. Another childhood friend of Petey's and an animal who was with Petey in the Critter Scouts. He is an anthropomorphic crocodile. But disappeared in Dog Man Fetch-22.

Philly - A giant taco used as a gyro by an army of hot dogs in Dog Man. And only in dog man.

Supa Mecha-Philly - This version of Philly is used as a prop for the Dog Man movie but is later turned into a powerful threat in Dog Man and Cat Kid. And only in Dog man and Cat kid.

Claymation Philly - This third version of Philly is used as a villain for the Dog Man movie when it finally makes it to theatres but is brought to life due to living spray that Piggy uses on the theatre screen.

Sam Hamilton - An easily frustrated movie director who appears in two Dog Man books.

Dog Jail Warden - Not much is known about this character but he is relentlessly evil.

Cat Jail Warden - This warden is featured in many of the books serving as a side character.

Fish Jail Warden - This warden is only featured in one of the books escorting Flippy to sign his Jail contracts

Flippy - The butterflyfish of evil, who changes in Dog Man: A Tale of Two Kitties" and "Dog Man: Fetch-22. He has psychokinetic abilities, and became part machine in the third book, because of Dog Man's bad habit of rolling around on dead fish.

Milly - A red-haired female cop. She appears as an unnamed side character in "Dog Man Unleashed." In "Dog Man: Lord of the Fleas," she is named and is Chief's partner. She has been seen since in cameos, but has not been mentioned by name.

Barky McTreeface - The evil tree in Dog Man: Fetch 22. He walked and destroyed buildings. Much to the Fair Fairy's annoyance, Downward Dog named him, and everyone else, except the Fair Fairy, agreed. The Barky McTreeface song's tune is the same as the one from Frosty the Snowman.

Molly - One of the 22 Tadpoles of Dog Man: Fetch 22. She is the only one who remembered the events of the book and the first one to become good.

Melvin the Frog - One of the 22 Tadpoles that has grown into a frog. He is very smart and rude, and is probably based off Melvin Sneedly from the Captain Underpants series.

Evil Mayor - One of the villians in Dog Man. She gets fired at the end of Chapter 2: Robo-Cheif, and is replaced by "New Mayor."

New Mayor - The mayor of the city the heroes live in. He is normally friendly but is an antagonist of Grime and Punishment.

Dr. Scum - An evil scientist who created Robo Chief, the replacement of Chief. He appeared in 2 books. In Dog Man: For Whom The Ball Rolls he ever appeared in, people thought he was a new villain.

Drippy - A pink lady appearing in many dog man books. Cannery Grow Lady, Drippys Dounuts Lady, and has the role of putting down a sign in book six.

George Beard (creator) - The protagonist of Captain Underpants and writer of the Dog Man comics.

Harold Hutchins (creator) - The protagonist of Captain Underpants and illustrator of the Dog Man comics.

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Dog Man is a comedic graphic novel series by American cartoonist Dav Pilkey (author of the Captain Underpants books) published by Scholastic Corporation that focuses on a part-dog, part-man police officer. The book series includes nine books, the first released in 2016 and the latest in 2020.

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The Titan's Curse is an American fantasy- adventure novel based on Greek mythology written by Rick Riordan. It was released on May 1, 2007, and is the third novel in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series and the sequel to The Sea of Monsters. It is about the adventures of the 14-year-old demigod Percy Jackson as he and his friends go on a dangerous quest to rescue his 14-year-old demigod friend Annabeth Chase and the Greek goddess Artemis, who have both been kidnapped by the titans.

The Titan's Curse was published by Miramax Books, an imprint of Hyperion Books for Children and thus Disney Publishing (succeeded by the Disney Hyperion imprint). It was released in the United States and the United Kingdom on May 1, 2007. The novel was also released in audiobook format, read by Jesse Bernstein.

Mostly well-received, The Titan's Curse was nominated for numerous awards, winning ones such as the No. 1 The New York Times children's series best seller and Book Sense Top thirty Summer Pick for 2010.

Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and Thalia Grace infiltrate the West Hall boarding school in Bar Harbor, Maine, to escort the siblings, Bianca and Nico di Angelo, to Camp Half-Blood. Though their extraction is a success, the manticore Dr. Thorn captures Annabeth, escaping when Artemis and her Hunters arrive. Artemis sets off alone to track down a monster which, in the wrong hands, has the power to destroy Mount Olympus. Beforehand, she sends the half-bloods and her Hunters to Camp Half-Blood, via her brother Apollo and his sun chariot. Bianca joins the Hunters, granting her immortality.

At camp, Percy and his pegasus Blackjack unknowingly rescue an Ophiotaurus which Percy nicknamed "Bessie". Artemis' lieutenant Zoë Nightshade begins to have dreams of the goddess in danger, whilst Percy dreams of Annabeth saving Luke Castellan by holding up a cave's ceiling. The mummified Oracle of Delphi disrupts a capture the flag game to give Zoë a prophecy; instructing her to travel to Mount Tamalpais, the modern day location of the Titans' domain of Mount Othrys, to rescue Artemis and Annabeth. Zoë takes Thalia, Bianca, and Grover Underwood with her on the quest. Percy decides to sneak off on his own, reluctantly promising Nico that he will protect Bianca.

Travelling to Washington D.C., Percy follows Thorn to the Smithsonian, witnessing Luke, Thorn, and a man called "The General" summoning spartoi to waylay Zoë's group. Percy warns his friends, helping them defeat the Nemean lion, claiming its impenetrable pelt as a reward. Zoë allows Percy to join the group, realising her prophecy implied this. They travel to Cloudcroft, New Mexico, where Grover senses the missing god Pan, who sends the Erymanthian Boar to help the group escape the spartoi.

They reach Gila Claw, Arizona, the "Junkyard of the Gods". Bianca reveals she and Nico unknowingly spent years in the Lotus Hotel, actually born in the 1930s, until taken to West Hall. Percy briefly has an encounter with Ares and Aphrodite, who warn him not to take anything from the junkyard. Bianca, regretting her choice to leave Nico, tries to take a figurine from the junkyard for her brother, awakening a prototype of Talos, giving her life to destroy it. The survivors sullenly travel to Hoover Dam, where Percy encounters Bessie, as well as Rachel Elizabeth Dare, a mortal who can see through the Mist, providing him an escape route by distracting the spartoi. The group fly to San Francisco with help from the dam's Winged Figures of the Republic.

Percy seeks out Nereus, learning that Bessie is the monster Artemis was hunting. After destroying Thorn, Percy sends Grover back to Camp Half-Blood with Bessie, sacrificing the lion pelt to his father Poseidon for his friend's safe passage. Percy, Zoë, and Thalia turn to Annabeth's father Frederick Chase for help, borrowing his car to reach Mount Othrys. There, they enter the Garden of the Hesperides, where Zoë is revealed to be the daughter of Atlas, the General's true identity. Zoë was exiled by her siblings after aiding Hercules steal a golden apple as per his labors, having gifted him with Percy's sword Riptide.

Reaching the peak of Mount Othrys, the group find Artemis holding up the sky, a role that Annabeth was also subjected to, explaining the true nature of Percy's dreams. Percy briefly takes the sky's weight, freeing Artemis. Luke tempts Thalia into joining Kronos' forces, but she declines, knocking him off the mountainside. Percy and Artemis trap Atlas beneath the sky, but not before he casts Zoë off a cliff, mortally wounding her. Frederick flies to the rescue, piloting a Sopwith Camel, the half-bloods escaping to a nearby airfield where Zoë dies of her wounds, transformed into a new constellation by Artemis called the "Hunter".

Percy, Annabeth, Thalia, and Artemis travel to Mount Olympus to attend the gods' winter solstice meeting, Artemis convincing the Olympians of the Titans' threat. Bessie is kept on Olympus for safekeeping. Thalia joins the Hunters to forestall the Great Prophecy, in which a child of either Zeus, Poseidon, or Hades could be used to bring victory for Kronos. Percy learns from Poseidon that Luke is alive. Upon returning to Camp Half-Blood, Percy informs Nico of Bianca's demise. A distraught Nico blames Percy, revealing he is a son of Hades when he banishes the spartoi to the Underworld, before fleeing. Percy tells Annabeth and Grover of Nico's lineage, the trio promising to keep it a secret, fearful that Nico will be the subject of the Great Prophecy.

Percy Jackson: Percy, a 14-year-old demigod and son of Poseidon, is the protagonist as well as the series' narrator. He embarks on a journey to save Annabeth and the Greek goddess Artemis, who have both been kidnapped.

Thalia Grace: Thalia is a 15-year-old demigod daughter of Zeus. Though she appears in Percy's dream in the first book, she makes a full appearance at the end of The Sea of Monsters and is given a greater role in the third book. Thalia is described as looking very punk, with electric blue eyes, black clothes, and spiky hair. Her personality is often described as "independent and many times sarcastic." While Thalia is a lot like Percy (due to both being children of the Big Three), and they become good friends before the events of the book, they often argue. She is heartbroken by Luke's betrayal of the camp and gods, as it is implied that she had feelings for him. She is also afraid of heights, which she reluctantly admits to Percy, despite the fact that she is the daughter of Zeus, God of the Sky. She joins the Huntress of Artemis as the new lieutenant to prevent her from being the child of the Great Prophecy with the permission of her father.

Annabeth Chase: Annabeth is a 14-year-old demigod and the daughter of Athena. She is friends with Percy, Thalia, and Grover. She is kidnapped, along with Artemis, by the Titans. She has a great passion and interest in architecture, and wishes to be an architect when she is older. Although she has a growing love interest in Percy, her feelings for Luke remain a problem between the two. Percy returns her feelings without realizing it, and is oblivious to how she feels about him.

Grover Underwood: A large-hearted satyr whose favorite foods are aluminum cans and cheese enchiladas. He is 28 years old, yet has the appearance of a teenager due to the satyrs' slower growth rate (half that of humans). He wants to become a searcher for Pan, the satyr god of nature and the wild, who fell into a "deep sleep" due to humans' pollution of the world.

Bianca di Angelo: Bianca is a 12-year-old demigod and the daughter of Hades. She and her ten-year-old brother Nico were trapped in the Lotus Casino, where time is slowed down, but at the beginning of the book, they got out and she attended an army school in Bar Harbor, Maine. She is killed by an automaton during the quest in the "Junkyard of the Gods".

Zoë Nightshade: Zoë is the daughter of Atlas, a banished Hesperid for helping the hero Hercules, the first lieutenant of the Hunters of Artemis, and the maker of Percy's sword, Riptide. Due to her age, she often has trouble updating her language and speaking skills, and uses Middle English. She dies after being bitten by Ladon the dragon, who protects the immortality-giving golden apple tree, and after her father Atlas throws her against a pile of rocks. Artemis turns her spirit into a constellation soon after her death. She and Thalia developed grudges against each other after Thalia refused to join the hunters before the events of the series, but they eventually get along before Zoë's demise.

Luke Castellan: The 21-year-old demigod son of Hermes, Luke is the main antagonist of the series. He is the main crony to Kronos; Kronos' followers and army gather on a ship called the Princess Andromeda. He is thought dead when Thalia kicks him off Mount Tamalpais, but he is later revealed to have survived.

Nico di Angelo: The 10-year-old demigod son of Hades, he and his older sister, Bianca, are rescued from a manticore by Percy, Annabeth, Thalia, and Grover. He is left at camp during the quest due to his young age, but stays in the Hermes cabin because his parentage has not yet been discovered. He leaves camp after hearing Percy broke his promise to him and letting Bianca die. Before he leaves, he sends an army of skeletal warriors back to the underworld, revealing his parentage.

The Titan's Curse received relatively positive reviews, which often lauded the humor and action in the story. Children's Literature, which commended the book's fast pace and humor, wrote, "Readers will relate to good natured Percy, the protagonist." Kirkus Reviews awarded it a starred review with, "This third in the Olympians series makes the Greek myths come alive in a way no dreary classroom unit can ... will have readers wondering how literature can be this fun. This can stand alone, though newcomers to the series will race back to the first two volumes and eagerly await a fourth installment." School Library Journal praised the "adventurous" plot as well as the book's appeal: "Teachers will cheer for Percy Jackson and the Olympians as they inspire students to embrace Greek mythology and score the ultimate Herculean challenge: getting kids to read. All in all, a winner of Olympic proportions and a surefire read-aloud." starred review approved of the novel's humor, action, and plotting: "The Percy Jackson & the Olympians series is built around a terrific idea-that the half-mortal offspring of Greek gods live among us, playing out struggles of mythic scale-and Riordan takes it from strength to strength with this exciting installment, adding even more depth to the characters and story arc while retaining its predecessors' nonstop laughs and action." Kidsreads raved, "Rick Riordan's Olympian adventures have gained great popularity thanks to their combination of humor, adventure and a winning hero ... Readers who are familiar with ancient mythology will enjoy Riordan's tongue-in-cheek approach; those who aren't just might be tempted to go to the original sources to learn more."

Awards and nominations

The Titan's Curse received several literature-related awards, including: number one The New York Times children's series best seller and Book Sense Top Ten Summer Pick for 2007. It was also a Quill Award nominee.

An eight-hour-and-forty-eight-minute audiobook read by the actor Jesse Bernstein and published by Listening Library was released on April 24, 2007.

AudioFile Magazine lauded Bernstein's interpretation, writing, "Sounding alternately young, or old, or really scary, Jesse Bernstein ... effectively voices the confusion and loss the team experiences."

In The Battle of the Labyrinth, Annabeth and Percy find an entrance into the Labyrinth during a game of capture the flag. Percy soon learns that Luke had used the entrance and will lead his army through the Labyrinth straight in to the heart of camp. To get into the Labyrinth, Percy has to find the symbol of Daedalus, the Greek letter delta, ( Δ) on a passageway, touch it, and then enter the Labyrinth. Using the Labyrinth, Percy tries to find Daedalus so Luke cannot get Ariadne's string, thereby foiling Luke's invasion.

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New Kid is a book that i found online about a week ago. It so happens that Mrs.Peterson wants to read it to.

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New Kid is a 2019 graphic novel by Jerry Craft. The novel tells the story of a 12-year-old African American boy named 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. The book is semi-autobiographical for Craft, who based the book on his experiences in a private school and those of his two sons. While he wishes the book to be appreciated by a wide range of readers, Craft particularly wanted it to accurately reflect a present-day African American experience.

The book was well received by critics, sold well, and won the 2020 Kirkus Prize, Newbery Medal, and Coretta Scott King Award. It was the first graphic novel to be awarded the Newbery Medal. The book's illustrations, using a unique number of graphical styles, helped to achieve a balance between the book's humorous and dramatic elements. Its critical and award successes were viewed at the time as an important achievement for graphic novels. A sequel titled was released on October 6th, 2020. A third book in the series, School Trip, was released on April 4, 2023.

12-year-old Jordan Banks is a black boy who lives in Washington Heights. Jordan loves art and makes cartoons about his life. His dream is to go to art school. However, his mother makes him go to Riverdale Academy Day (RAD) School, which she calls "one of the best schools in the state". However, RAD is not a very diverse school, having only a few black students.

During his first day at Riverdale, Jordan is overwhelmed. He is helped by Liam Landers, a fellow student assigned to be Jordan's guide, and whose family has attended RAD for 3 generations. The two become friends. Jordan meets a variety of other students at the school, including Drew Ellis, who is one of the few African American students at his school; Andy Peterson, a jock who is unliked by many of his fellow students; and Alexandra, who always wears a sock puppet on her hand.

Jordan has some difficulties adjusting to RAD. These include sitting at the wrong table at lunch and not knowing how to act when a friend from the neighborhood sees him with Liam. Further challenges occur when his advisor discusses students on financial aid and calls Drew by the name of DeAndre. Jordan discovers that this kind of misnaming happens to other black students and faculty at the school, even a black teacher who has been at the school for fourteen years.

Things start to slowly improve for Jordan. Forced to pick a team sport to play, Jordan chooses soccer and struggles with the rules and the cold, and scores an accidental goal in his first game. He also can have honest conversations with Drew about what it's like to be one of the few African Americans at RAD and become friends with him. His friendship with Liam also deepens after he goes to his house and they play video games. Liam gives him a pair of pink shorts that everyone at RAD wears for Christmas. After a discussion with his grandfather, Jordan successfully mixes both his school friends through video games. However, after Jordan corrects his neighborhood friends' grammar they give him the nickname "Private School".

There continue to be ups and downs for Jordan at school academically and socially. At first, Jordan dislikes his art teacher because she is teaching modern art, though later he comes to understand that modern art isn't that bad and that his teacher can paint normal art too. While waiting to be picked up one day, Jordan learns that Alexandra wears a sock puppet because she doesn't want anyone to see the burns on her hand, burns that she sustained preventing her younger brother from being scalded by a pot of boiling water. However, the burns aren't that bad, and through a bit of trickery, Jordan gets the information about Alexandra's burn out, which causes her to become more accepted by her peers. After ongoing tension between Drew and Andy, starting from when Drew beat Andy for a position on the football team, Andy dares Drew to join the baseball team, which he does, and ends up being benched all season because he doesn't know how to play baseball. When Drew and Andy get into an argument in the cafeteria, Andy slips on an apple and falls, but Drew is initially accused of pushing him. However, Jordan and several other classmates stick up for Drew, stopping him from being suspended for two weeks.

As the school year draws to a close, Jordan's modern art illustration is picked for the cover of the yearbook. Drew, Liam, and Jordan have become good friends and on the last day of school Jordan even wears the pair of pink shorts that Liam gave him at Christmas. Drew remains unsure if he'll return to RAD, almost having been suspended for the argument with Andy despite making the honor roll each semester. The book ends with Jordan with his neighborhood friends as they start their summer

Author Jerry Craft described wanting to put as much into the book as he could, as he was unsure if he'd get a similar opportunity in the future, "By the end, it was like overpacking a suitcase - I had to kind of sit on it to zip it up, because I was trying to put so much in for so many different people." He expressed appreciation for the support his publisher, HarperCollins, gave him in trying to execute this vision.

Riverdale Academy Day School is loosely based on Ethical Culture Fieldston School which Craft attended in high school. Craft also cited Schoolhouse Rock! and Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids as inspirations. He hoped that kids and adults would find the book equally entertaining. His goal with New Kid was to create a character in Jordan with universal appeal. However, writing a book that reflected the modern African American experience for African American readers was at the heart of why Craft wanted to write the book. Craft credits his experience as a syndicated cartoonist with giving him experience to make the book humorous. It was important to Craft that the book was funny because "I think that as a people we have gotten so complacent in misery that we almost expect it" when it comes to portrays of African Americans. He felt his cartoon work also gave him experience in tackling serious topics in "palatable" ways.

The character of Jordan draws on traits from both Craft and his two sons. Craft also drew on his sons' experiences in private schools. He made some major revisions to the book after showing it to his two college-aged children. His son's experiences were important in helping in Craft's goal of having a contemporary rather than historical setting. Craft talked with some of the teachers who he'd parodied who expressed that they learned something after reading the book.

The book and audiobook were published on February 5, 2019.

The book explores identity, cross-racial friendships, and the effects of microaggressions. By having Jordan get along better with Liam than Maury, Craft wished to show that friendships don't have to be based solely on race. Elizabeth Bird, writing for School Library Journal, writes that, "Craft gathers together every possible microaggression in his arsenal and weaves them into a comprehensive story." She goes on to write about the various ways that well-meaning adults and obnoxious children can make a school uncomfortable for minorities.

It also works as a traditional coming-of-age and school story. Author Katie Egan writing in School Library Journal writes, "Craft has taken the daily dramas of middle school life (cafeteria hierarchy, social anxieties, and tween hallway banter) to an arresting and devastatingly accurate new level." In the New York Times, author Victoria Jamieson notes that Jordan has to find his own way between his neighborhood and his school with his parents giving different examples of what that can look like; his mom works in the corporate world, while his dad runs a community center. Jamieson also cites the advice Jordan's grandfather gives him. The story is focussed on Jordan's struggle to fit-in in a new school where diversity is low.

The graphic novel format allows for extra content for readers to interpret the actions and intents of the characters. It can also show how Jordan is feeling, as when he is shown to be the size of an ant when he first enters the cafeteria. The book uses a variety of graphic styles, including black and white drawings to represent Jordan's sketchbook, and full-color graphics with extra design elements like emojis, in other places. Each new chapter is introduced through a humorous two-page spread. Such humorous elements also help to provide balance for the serious elements of the story.

Critics felt that some elements of the book worked better than others. Bird noted the episodic format of the book and how certain plot points seemed underdeveloped or unrealistic. Gretchen Hardin in School Library Journal praised the black and white drawings for the expressive way they develop Jordan's character while suggesting that "the art loses a bit of detail during crowd scenes."

The book sold well becoming a bestseller. The book was generally well reviewed, receiving a starred review in School Library Journal and Publishers Weekly. The Horn Book Magazine wrote that the graphic novel "stands out as a robust, contemporary depiction of a preteen navigating sometimes hostile spaces yet staying true to himself thanks to friends, family, and art." Bird noted how New Kid is the rare graphic novel to have a non-superhero contemporary black teen as a protagonist. Common Sense Media wrote in its review, "The move to middle school confuses many students and has inspired many comics, but this funny and heartfelt graphic novel covers new territory." Wesley Jacques writing in The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books, criticized the book's "uneven pacing and inconsistency in illustration" and for its failure to explore the colorism faced by darker skinned characters. The New York Times named it one of the best children's books of 2019 and Polygon labeled it one of the 50 best graphic novels for kids.

The book won the 2020 Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award, which was seen as part of an awards "breakthrough" for graphic novels. It was the first graphic novel to be awarded the Newbery Medal. Craft had been hopeful New Kid would be recognized with the Newbery Medal after it did well in several mock Newbery Awards and was shocked when he received a second phone call informing him about the Coretta Scott King Award win. Krishna Grady, chair of the 2020 Newbery committee, praised the book in announcing its win, "Respectful of its child audience, it explores friendship, race, class and bullying in a fresh and oftentimes humorous manner." The book also won the 2020 Kirkus Prize.

A movie based off New Kid was announced on August 5, 2020. The book's rights were purchased by Universal Pictures and will be produced by LeBron James and Maverick Carter with their company SpringHill Entertainment. Prentice Penny will direct the movie using a script by Eli Wilson Pelton.

In the context of a backlash against racial justice protests in the U.S., New Kid was accused of promoting critical race theory and racism. This accusation is unsubstantiated, as author Jerry Craft was not even aware of the academic theory when writing the book. In 2020, a Pennsylvania school district banned the book as an educational resource together with other anti-racism books. This ban was overturned in September 2021 after protests by parents and students. The school district in Katy, Texas banned the book, and postponed a virtual talk by Craft to elementary school students scheduled to take place in October 2021. The removal of the book from the curriculum of Katy Independent School District followed a mobilization by parents, who signed a Change.org online petition alleging that the book violated a new state law on how American history should be portrayed in schools.

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New Kid is a 2019 graphic novel by Jerry Craft. The novel tells the story of a 12-year-old African American boy named 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.

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Meet Jordan Banks | NEW KID by Jerry Craft