Read-alikes and related books

Books like New Kid

24 titles for readers of New Kid by Jerry Craft, selected for shared themes: Prejudice & Racism, New Experience, Humorous, and Social Themes.

Prejudice & Racism New Experience Humorous Social Themes Comics & Graphic Novels Juvenile Fiction

Top related books to New Kid

Handpicked for thematic and literary overlap — the best shelf companions to New Kid.

Timid: a Graphic Novel

Jonathan Todd

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • New Experience • Social Themes

School Trip

Jerry Craft

Themes: New Experience • Humorous • Social Themes

Swim Team

Johnnie Christmas

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • New Experience • Social Themes

Stella by Starlight

Sharon M. Draper

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • New Experience • Social Themes

Killing Miss Kitty and Other Sins

Marion Dane Bauer

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • New Experience • Social Themes

The Boy at the Back of the Class

Onjali Q. Raúf

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • New Experience • Social Themes

Indian No More

Charlene Willing McManis

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • New Experience • Social Themes

Camp

Kayla Miller

Themes: New Experience • Humorous • Social Themes

Hush

Jacqueline Woodson

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • New Experience • Social Themes

#10

Karen’s Grandmothers: a Graphic Novel (Baby-Sitters Little Sister #9)

Ann M. Martin

Themes: New Experience • Humorous • Social Themes

#11

Here We Are: Notes for Living on Planet Earth

Oliver Jeffers

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • New Experience • Social Themes

#12

Club Kick Out!: Into the Ring A Graphic Novel

Steph Mided

Themes: New Experience • Humorous • Social Themes

#13

Clash

Kayla Miller

Themes: New Experience • Humorous • Social Themes

#14

Accidental Love

Gary Soto

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • New Experience • Social Themes

#15

How it All Ends

Emma Hunsinger

Themes: New Experience • Humorous • Social Themes

#16

Curls

Ruth Forman

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • New Experience • Social Themes

#17

Jacky Ha-Ha: My Life Is a Joke (a Graphic Novel)

James Patterson

Themes: New Experience • Humorous • Social Themes

#18

Prairie Lotus

Linda Sue Park

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • New Experience • Social Themes

#19

Stick Dog Slurps Spaghetti

Tom. Watson

Themes: New Experience • Humorous • Social Themes

#20

Parachute Kids

Betty C. Tang

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • Humorous • Social Themes

#21

Sincerely Sicily

Tamika Burgess

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • New Experience • Social Themes

#22

The Other Side of Truth

Beverley Naidoo

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • New Experience • Social Themes

#23

Get Outer My Space! (the Cosmic Adventures of Astrid and Stella Book #3 (a Hello!Lucky Book)) A Graphic Novel

Sabrina Moyle

Themes: New Experience • Humorous • Social Themes

#24

Danilo Was Here

Tamika Burgess

Themes: Prejudice & Racism • New Experience • Social Themes

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Prejudice & Racism, New Experience, Humorous — the same threads that run through New Kid by Jerry Craft. Among the authors featured: Jonathan Todd, Jerry Craft, Johnnie Christmas, Sharon M. Draper, and others.