~ Trade Paperback, Graphic Novel
~ Winner of the Garden State Book Award for Graphic Novels - 2023
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 been reminding him of this 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?
A companion book to New Kid (winner of the 2020 Newbery Medal, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Kirkus Prize), Class Act reveals another laugh-out-loud funny, powerful, and important story about being one of the few kids of color at a prestigious private school.
“Lightning strikes twice as Craft again produces a funny and appealing yet sensitive and nuanced middle grade tale of inequity and microaggressions.” -- School Library Journal