- Newbery Award–winning graphic novelist Jerry Craft sends Jordan, Drew, and a small group of students from Riverdale Academy on a school trip to Paris in this full-color contemporary graphic novel about friendship, growing up, uncomfortable but necessary conversations, and navigating the world. A companion to New Kid and Class Act!
- Jordan, Drew, Liam, and a group of other students from Riverdale Academy Day School are finally heading out on their long-awaited school trip to Paris. As an aspiring artist himself, Jordan can’t wait to see all the amazing art in the famous city of lights.
- When their trusted faculty guides are replaced at the last minute, the school trip takes an unexpected—and hilarious—turn. But trying to find their way around a foreign city ends up being almost as tricky as navigating the same friendships, fears, and differences that they struggle with at home.
- Will Jordan and his friends embrace being exposed to a new language, unfamiliar food, and a different culture? Or will they all end up feeling like the “new kid”?
COMPANION TO AWARD-WINNING AND BESTSELLING GRAPHIC NOVELS: This third book in Jerry Craft’s series follows the original Newbery winner and New York Times bestseller New Kid along with its sequel, Class Act, which was also a critical and popular success. Readers will be thrilled to get their hands on this third installment of adventures of Jordan and the other Riverdale students!
AN INTERNATIONAL ADVENTURE: A group of students from Riverdale Academy is off to Paris, with all the glamor—and discomfort—that comes along with overseas travel. There are not enough stories on shelves about kids of color experiencing the larger world, from timeless art and classic architecture to eating frog’s legs and trying to speak in a different language.
UNCOMFORTABLE BUT RELATABLE CONVERSATIONS: Anyone who has ever been to middle school will remember how awkward it can be while everyone is learning about the world around them and figuring out how to represent themselves. With lighthearted humor, Jordan and his friends roll with the punches of biases, assumptions, misunderstandings, microaggressions, and all kinds of social dynamics.
KID-FRIENDLY HUMOR: Jerry writes with a pitch-perfect middle school voice, tinged with frustrations, tenderness, and embarrassment—but always with humor and empathy.
PERSONABLE, THOUGHTFUL AUTHOR: Jerry is a thoughtful, enthusiastic promoter of his work—even through a push to ban his books, during which he has represented his work beautifully.
Praise for New Kid!
Newbery Medal Winner
A New York Times Bestseller
Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner
Kirkus Prize Winner
"With his signature laugh-out-loud storytelling, which teems with nuanced character dynamics, tender moments of acceptance and connection, and a multicultural cast, Craft offers a zestful graphic novel adventure that mixes lighthearted fare with thought-provoking observations on lasting friendship in the face of future-based anxieties." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Readers will love this European escapade with characters who reflect the richness and multiculturalism of modern America. Another triumph of storytelling filled with heart and wonder." -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"This heartfelt, must-read title belongs on all library shelves, as it beautifully accompanies Craft’s first two graphic novels with these characters." -School Library Journal (starred review)
"Coretta Scott King and Newbery–winning author Craft effectively uses brightly colored panels, speech bubbles, dialogue, and black-and-white sketchbook pages to portray the challenges of an overseas school trip for Black students as well as of this diverse group of students as a whole in navigating a new city and their own relationships." -Horn Book (starred review)
