New Kid: The First Graphic Novel to Win a Newberry Medal

"New Kid" is the first graphic novel, only graphic novel ever to win a Newberry medal. It's like from a kid who hated the read and was told that comics were right in his brain to grow up,. "There's a movie in the works with this book," he says. 'My life should be an after school special'

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