![]() ![]() Anderson created a petition on that garnered 500 signatures before being pulled by the platform for violating the site’s terms of service. ![]() Now both books have been pulled from a Texas school district’s libraries, and a speaking event with Craft scheduled for earlier this week was cancelled, after parents expressed concerns over the themes present in the books.Įarlier this week the Houston Chronicle reported that the Katy Independent School District in Katy, TX had cancelled a planned Zoom chat between Craft and a group of 3rd through 5th graders after Bonnie Anderson, the mother of a student, read both New Kid and Class Act and determined that the books espoused Critical Race Theory, the academic study of systemic racism within the United States. ![]() A sequel graphic novel, Class Act, was released in 2020, and quickly shot to the top of the New York Times Bestseller list and found its way onto a number of year-end “Best Of” lists. ![]() Cartoonist Jerry Craft‘s middle grade graphic novel, New Kid, was released in 2019, and last year became the first graphic novel ever to be awarded the John Newbery Medal as “the most distinguished American children’s book published the previous year.” The graphic novel follows seventh-grader Jordan as he enters a new school and finds himself one of only a few students of color in his class. ![]()
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