New Boy
2017 • 188 pages

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Starting his fifth school in five years, Osei Kokote, a diplomat's son, hoping to survive his first day becomes friends with Dee, the most popular girl in school, but Ian is determined to destroy the budding friendship.

1970s, in a suburban D.C. schoolyard. Starting his fifth school in five years, Osei Kokote, a diplomat's son, hopes to survive his first day. He becomes friends with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student, Ian, is determined to destroy the budding friendship between the black boy and the golden girl.

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Hogarth Shakespeare project

Hogarth Shakespeare project is a 15-book series first released in 2015 with contributions by Jeanette Winterson, Margaret Atwood, and Howard Jacobson.


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It's a retelling of Othello set in the sixth grade. All the tensions of youth and racism are there. And it's heart breaking and brilliantly rendered.

May 5, 2019

3.5 stars. Probably one of the better retellings in the Hogarth series.

July 25, 2017

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